The Penguin Book Of Irish Short Stories

Author : Colm Tóibín
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140298499
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction written by Colm Tóibín and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the entire canon of Irish fiction in English, from Jonathan Swift (born 1667) to Emma Donoghue (born 1969). Selections from 100 renowned writers, including Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and others, are presented along with background information.

Author : Benedict Kiely
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories written by Benedict Kiely and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1981 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercurial, intoxicating, witty or sad, the Irish short story is as full of charm (and blarney) as the people themselves.This is a selection of thirty-eight stories covering many generations and many moods of Irish writing. It begins with an exquisite love story, an ancient saga retold by Lady Gregory; continues with George Moore and the birth of the modern short story at the turn of the century; includes such preeminent writers as James Joyce, Sean O'Faolain, Mary Lavin and Liam O'Flaherty, whose work re-established the tradition of the short story; and concludes with the newer but no less practised exponents of the art - Elizabeth Bowen, William Trevor and Edna O'Brien.

Author : Malcolm Bradbury
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141965150
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories written by Malcolm Bradbury and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1988-02-25 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is in many was a ‘best of the best’, containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest and Tokyo. Above all, as you will discover, it satisfies Samuel Butler's anarchic pleasure principle: 'I should like to like Schumann's music better than I do; I daresay I could make myself like it better if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all ...'

Author : Benedict Kiely
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “The” Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories written by Benedict Kiely and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Trevor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199583140
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories written by William Trevor and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers. This magnificent anthology chronicles the development of a rich literary tradition, from the earliest folk-tales to James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and the rising stars of the new generation.

Author : Anne Enright
Publisher : Granta Anthologies
ISBN 13 : 9781847082558
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story written by Anne Enright and published by Granta Anthologies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Booker prize-winning author's critically acclaimed selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's best-selling Granta Book of the American Short Story.

Author : Ben Forkner
Publisher : Abacus (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780349104850
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Irish Short Stories written by Ben Forkner and published by Abacus (UK). This book was released on 1981 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories by 26 modern Irish writers, including George Moore, Sean O'Faolain, W.B. Yeats, Frank O'Connor, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, James Plunkett, Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, Benedict Kiely and William Trevor.

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141934816
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Irish Myths and Sagas written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1981-09-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods. From the vivid adventures of the great Celtic hero Cu Chulaind, to the stunning 'Exile of the Sons of Uisliu' - a tale of treachery, honour and romance - these are masterpieces of passion and vitality, and form the foundation for the Irish literary tradition: a mythic legacy that was a powerful influence on the work of Yeats, Synge and Joyce.

Author : Rebecca O'Connor
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 1846591597
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scéalta written by Rebecca O'Connor and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short story is one of Ireland's national treasures, and within these pages are some of its finest practitioners — from such established names as Julia O'Faolain, Claire Keegan and Christine Dwyer Hickey, to the exciting new voices of Judy Kravis, Eithne McGuinness and Cherry Smyth. Here we have stories of dysfunctional marriages, abnormal goings on in rural outposts, urban alienation, and kitchen sink dramas where the woman is no longer tied to the kitchen sink but railing against past wrongs. Issues of domestic violence, child abuse, and abortion are laid startlingly bare. The voices are bold, unsentimental, often very funny, and always deeply affecting. Part of a series showcasing contemporary women writers from around the world.

Author : Dermot Bolger
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction written by Dermot Bolger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-11-14 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects forty-six contemporary Irish short stories featuring contributions by notables including Mary Leland, William Trevor, Mary Dorcey, Patrick McCabe, and Brian Moore.