THE PENGUIN BOOK OF IRISH FICTION

Toibin, Colm [edited & Introduction by]

ISBN 10: 0670854972 / ISBN 13: 9780670854974

Published by Viking, London, 1999

About this Item

Signed by Colm Toibin on the title page, A fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; 245 x 165mm; xxxiv, 1086 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 27360

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE PENGUIN BOOK OF IRISH FICTION
• Publisher: Viking, London
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670854972
• ISBN 13: 9780670854974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • literature

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Synopsis

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. The Penguin book of Irish fiction, hardcover, Very Good, Almost as new; very slight dents to top and bottom of jacket and spine. xxxiv, 1085 p. ; 24 cm.. . Castle Rackrent / Maria Edg.eworth -- Wildgoose Lodge / William Carleton -- The hungry death / Rosa Mulholland -- Home sickness / George Moore -- Nightfall / Daniel Corkery -- A glass of beer / James Stephens -- The dead / James Joyce -- The hawk / Liam O'Flaherty -- Her table spread / Elizabeth Bowen -- A dead cert / Sean O'Faolain -- On the empty shore / Seosamh Mac Grianna -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- First love / Samuel Beckett -- Company / Samuel Beckett -- Floodtide / Mairtin O Cadhain -- Exile's return / Bryan MacMahon -- The martyr's crown / Flann O'Brien -- Happiness / Mary Lavin -- The morning after the big fire / Maeve Brennan -- Homes on the mountain / Benedict Kiely -- The eagles and the trumpets / James Plunkett -- Memory and desire / Val Mulkerns -- Kathleen's field / William Trevor -- The hairdresser / Leland Bardwell -- Foundry House / Brian Friel -- Music at Annahullion / Eugene McCabe -- A Belfast woman / Mary Beckett -- Left of the door / Tom Mac Intyre -- Will You please go now / Julia O'Faolain -- The country funeral / John McGahern -- Life drawing / Bernard Mac Laverty -- Such good friends / Ita Daly -- Topping / Shane Connaughton -- Night in Tunisia / Neil Jordan -- Memories of swinging London -- Desmond Hogan -- A country dance / Mary Dorcey -- Nazi Christmas / Hugo Hamilton -- In the dark / Aidan Mathews -- The cantilever principle / Mary Morrissy -- (She owns) every thing / Anne Enright -- Slade / Frank Ronan -- Breakfast for Enrique / Colum McCann -- Going back / Emma Donoghue..

About the Author

Colm Tóibín has been hailed by the Irish Independent as the best Irish writer of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Prize.