T.P McKenna
1) Dubliners
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English
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A collection of short stories meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early 20th century.
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English
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The Irish are arguably the most literate people in the world. The number of famous Irish authors, from Joyce to Trevor and from Goldsmith to O'Brien, is a clear testimony to that. In this rich selection, we have concentrated on some of the early Irish writers who were particularly adept at the art of writing good short stories.
Stories range from Gerald Griffin's chilling tale, The Brown Man, to the delicate and closely observed...
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English
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This compelling collection spans Yeats's career: from the poems of his early years, which display his interest in Irish myths and his hopeless passion for Irish patriot Maud Gonne, to the soaring, majestic poems of his old age. Works of precision, economy and sensuous, lyrical beauty, they include "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "The Wild Swans at Coole," "Byzantium," and "Leda and the Swan."