Roland Cashel

Roland Cashel is a historical novel originally written by the Irish author Charles Lever and first published in 1850. The narrative follows the titular character through a series of romantic and financial escapades, reflecting the Victorian era's fascination with social mobility, colonial wealth, and moral character. Lever, known for his picaresque style, designed the work to capture the energetic and often chaotic spirit of mid-19th-century Irish and European society, and it was initially serialized to maintain contemporary reader engagement.

This specific edition is a reproduction by HardPress, a publisher dedicated to the preservation of rare, out-of-print literature through archival scanning. By utilizing high-quality digital imaging of original source material, HardPress seeks to make these foundational 19th-century texts accessible to modern scholars and enthusiasts. While these volumes do not contain the original illustrations or editorial notes of the first edition, they serve as a standard reference copy for those interested in the Victorian literary canon.