The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction
Title | The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Colm Tóibín |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | China |
ISBN | 9780140298499 |
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.
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction
Title | The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Colm Tóibín |
Publisher | Viking Adult |
Pages | 1132 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
An anthology of Irish fiction, from Gulliver's Travels to the current younger generation of Irish writers. It includes sections from novels, with an introduction explaining the context, as well as short stories. Work is chosen on literary merit rather than the light it throws on Irish history or politics. The way writers use form and language is the central concern.
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry
Title | The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Crotty |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 872 |
Release | 2018-11-08 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0241387981 |
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, from Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, along with a profusion of lyrics, love poems, satires, ballads and songs. Reflecting Ireland's complex past and lively present, this collection of Irish verse is an indispensable guide to the history, culture and romance of one of Europe's oldest civilizations. In his introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition, Patrick Crotty explores the traditions of poetry in Ireland, and relates the rich variety of the poems to the long and frequently troubled history of the island.
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction
Title | The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Dermot Bolger |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 608 |
Release | 1995-11-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Collects forty-six contemporary Irish short stories featuring contributions by notables including Mary Leland, William Trevor, Mary Dorcey, Patrick McCabe, and Brian Moore.
Irish Writing
Title | Irish Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Regan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 628 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780192840387 |
'Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?' W. B. YeatsThis anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. From Charlotte Brooke and Edmund Burke to Elizabeth Bowen and Louis MacNeice, the anthology shows how, in forging a tradition of theirown, Irish writers have continually challenged and renewed the ways in which Ireland is imagined and defined. The anthology includes a wide-ranging and generous selection of fiction, poetry, and drama. Three plays by W. B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, and J. M. Synge are printed in their entirety, along with the opening episode of James Joyce's Ulysses. The volume also includes letters, speeches, songs,memoirs, essays, and travel writings, many of which are difficult to obtain elsewhere.'Stephen Regan's anthology vividly and valiantly presents a nation, and a national literature, coming into being.' Paul Muldoon
The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories
Title | The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Benedict Kiely |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN |
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.
The Penguin Book of Hell
Title | The Penguin Book of Hell PDF eBook |
Author | Scott G. Bruce |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2018-09-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0143131621 |
"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantánamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America A Penguin Classic From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk--a monster with a thousand giant hands; wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers, and hypocrites are made to endure crime-appropriate torture; and witness the debates that raged in Victorian England when new scientific advances cast doubt on the idea of an eternal hereafter. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles, and accounts of saints' lives, this fascinating volume of hellscapes illuminates how Hell has long haunted us, in both life and death. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.