44 IRISH SHORT STORIES

Garrity, Devin A. (editor) (John Collier; Lord Dunsany; Padraic Fallon; James Joyce; Patrick Kavanagh; Mary Lavin; Frank O'Connor; Sean O'Faolain; James Plunkett; George Bernard Shaw; James Stephens; Oscar Wilde; William Butler Yeats)

ISBN 10: 1568522363 / ISBN 13: 9781568522364

Published by Konecky and Konecky, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, 2009

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(x) 500 pp. Gray boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: She Went by Gently by Paul Vincent Carroll; The Islandman by Desmond Clarke; The Lady on the Grey by John Collier; The Return; and The Awakening by Daniel Corkery; Saint Bakeoven by Eric Cross; The Kith of the Elf Folk by Lord Dunsany; The Burial by St. John Ervine; Something in a Boat by Padraic Fallon; Miss Gillespie and the Micks by Arnold Hill; The Leaping Trout by David Hogan; Araby; and Counterparts by James Joyce; Football by Patrick Kavanagh; The Story of the Widow's Son by Mary Lavin; All the Sweet Buttermilk; and Duet for Organ and Strings by Donagh MacDonagh; Myself and a Rabbit by Michael MacGrian; The Wild Duck's Nest; and Father Christmas by Michael McLaverty; The Cat and the Cornfield; and The Plain People of England by Bryan MacMahon; Julia Cahill's Curse by George Moore; The World Outside by Val Mulkerns; The Devil and O'Flaherty by Padraic O Conaire; The Drunkard; and The Majesty of Law by Frank O'Connor; Teresa; and Persecution Mania by Sean O'Faolain; The Tent; and The Hawk by Liam O'Flaherty; Michael and Mary; and Nan Hogan's House by Seumas O'Kelly; The Martyr's Crown by Brian O'Nolan; Bell Wethers by Jim Phelan; Weep for Our Pride by James Plunkett; The Miraculous Revenge by George Bernard Shaw; The Black Mare by Edward Sheehy; A Rhinoceros Some Ladies and a Horse; and Schoolfellows by James Stephens; Come Back My Love by Maurice Walsh; The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde; Where There Is Nothing There is God; and Red Hanrahan by William Butler Yeats; followed by Notes on the Authors. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 44 IRISH SHORT STORIES
• Publisher: Konecky and Konecky, Old Saybrook, Connecticut
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568522363
• ISBN 13: 9781568522364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing - First Thus.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

44 of the finest of Irish stories from the hands of such masters as Yeats, Joyce, Stephens and O'Connor. The reader will also be introduced to other writers, less well-known, but no less worthy. A tapestry woven of dazzling language and imagination.

From the Inside Flap

The Irish have always had a way with words. Long ago they took on a language not their own and learned to re-word it into pure magic. Nowhere is this magic more in evidence than in their short stories?stories that combine lyricism, humor and tragedy with rare imagination set in simple backgrounds, largely without props.
The seemingly effortless art of the best Irish writers has an appeal that is naive and highly sophisticated at the same time; the disarming simplicity with which the tales are spun being somewhat misleading at first reading.
In this anthology there are gathered, for the first time in America, some of the more representative examples of Irish short fiction. The emphasis is on variety. All are a delight to read. All have universal appeal. Only 21 of the 44 have previously been published in this country.