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Oscar Wilde
Written by Richard Ellmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 5, 1988
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-75984-5 (0-394-75984-2)
"A master of the biographer's art...a distinguished book...Ellmann has the first, indispensable virtue of telling his story well--not just the big story but the lesser stories that lie coiled inside it."--New York Review of Books
"It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive, measured and fascinating account."--Time Read more >
Written by Richard Ellmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 5, 1988
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-75984-5 (0-394-75984-2)
"A master of the biographer's art...a distinguished book...Ellmann has the first, indispensable virtue of telling his story well--not just the big story but the lesser stories that lie coiled inside it."--New York Review of Books
"It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive, measured and fascinating account."--Time Read more >
James Joyce's Ulysses
Written by Stuart Gilbert
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1955
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-70013-7 (0-394-70013-9)
With the passing of each year, Ulysses receives wider recognition and greater acclaim as a modern literary classic. To comprehend Joyce's masterpiece fully, to gain insight into its significance and structure, the serious reader will find this analytical and systematic guide invaluable. In this exegesis, written under Joyce's supervision, Stuart Gilbert... Read more >
Written by Stuart Gilbert
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1955
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-70013-7 (0-394-70013-9)
With the passing of each year, Ulysses receives wider recognition and greater acclaim as a modern literary classic. To comprehend Joyce's masterpiece fully, to gain insight into its significance and structure, the serious reader will find this analytical and systematic guide invaluable. In this exegesis, written under Joyce's supervision, Stuart Gilbert... Read more >
Irish Folk Tales
Written by Henry Glassie
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: February 11, 1997
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77412-9 (0-679-77412-2)
Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild Gaelic... Read more >
Written by Henry Glassie
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: February 11, 1997
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77412-9 (0-679-77412-2)
Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild Gaelic... Read more >
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Elizabeth Bowen
Written by Victoria Glendinning
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27740-4 (0-307-27740-2)
In this richly detailed biography, Victoria Glendinning brings alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist whose literary achievements were equaled only by her unbounded gift for living.
Taking us from Elizabeth Bowen's ancestral home in Ireland, Bowen’s Court, to Oxford where she met Yeats and Eliot, to her service as an air-raid warden... Read more >
Written by Victoria Glendinning
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27740-4 (0-307-27740-2)
In this richly detailed biography, Victoria Glendinning brings alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist whose literary achievements were equaled only by her unbounded gift for living.
Taking us from Elizabeth Bowen's ancestral home in Ireland, Bowen’s Court, to Oxford where she met Yeats and Eliot, to her service as an air-raid warden... Read more >
Juno & Juliet
A Novel
Written by Julian Gough
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72161-5 (0-385-72161-7)
Juno and Juliet Taylor are twin sisters heading off together to the University of County Galway. It’s the Irish girls first time away from home, and they’re looking forward to exploring much more than the library, learning much more than what the books will teach them. With the delightful ease and... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Julian Gough
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72161-5 (0-385-72161-7)
Juno and Juliet Taylor are twin sisters heading off together to the University of County Galway. It’s the Irish girls first time away from home, and they’re looking forward to exploring much more than the library, learning much more than what the books will teach them. With the delightful ease and... Read more >
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Dubliners
Written by James Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 6, 1993
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73990-6 (0-679-73990-4)
With these fifteen stories James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. The text of this edition has been newly edited by Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and is followed by a new afterword, chronology, and... Read more >
Written by James Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 6, 1993
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73990-6 (0-679-73990-4)
With these fifteen stories James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. The text of this edition has been newly edited by Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and is followed by a new afterword, chronology, and... Read more >
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Written by James Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 6, 1993
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73989-0 (0-679-73989-0)
Joyce's supremely innovative fictional autobiography is also, in the apt phrase of biographer Richard Ellmann, nothing less than "the gestation of a soul." For as he describes the shabby, cloying, and sometimes terrifying Dublin upbringing of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, Joyce immerses the reader in his emerging consciousness, employing language... Read more >
Written by James Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 6, 1993
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73989-0 (0-679-73989-0)
Joyce's supremely innovative fictional autobiography is also, in the apt phrase of biographer Richard Ellmann, nothing less than "the gestation of a soul." For as he describes the shabby, cloying, and sometimes terrifying Dublin upbringing of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, Joyce immerses the reader in his emerging consciousness, employing language... Read more >
Ulysses
Written by James Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 16, 1990
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72276-2 (0-679-72276-9)
The revised edition follows the complete and unabridged text of Ulysses as corrected and reset in 1961. Like the first American edition of 1934, it also contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling by Judge John M. Woolsey to remove the federal ban on the book... Read more >
Written by James Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 16, 1990
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72276-2 (0-679-72276-9)
The revised edition follows the complete and unabridged text of Ulysses as corrected and reset in 1961. Like the first American edition of 1934, it also contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling by Judge John M. Woolsey to remove the federal ban on the book... Read more >
Ulysses (Gabler Edition)
Written by James Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 680 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 12, 1986
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-74312-7 (0-394-74312-1)
The corrected text of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, with a preface by distinguished Joyce scholar Richard Ellmann, a forword and a note on the text by Hans Walter Gabler, and an afterword by Michael Groden. Read more >
Written by James Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 680 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 12, 1986
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-74312-7 (0-394-74312-1)
The corrected text of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, with a preface by distinguished Joyce scholar Richard Ellmann, a forword and a note on the text by Hans Walter Gabler, and an afterword by Michael Groden. Read more >
Gross Indecency
The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
Written by Moises Kaufman
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 27, 1998
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70232-7 (0-375-70232-6)
In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his youthful lover, who had publicly maligned him as a sodomite. In doing so, England's reigning man of letters set in motion a series of events that would culminate in his ruin and imprisonment... Read more >
The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
Written by Moises Kaufman
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 27, 1998
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70232-7 (0-375-70232-6)
In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his youthful lover, who had publicly maligned him as a sodomite. In doing so, England's reigning man of letters set in motion a series of events that would culminate in his ruin and imprisonment... Read more >
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes
A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
Written by Martha Long
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-414-5 (1-60980-414-7)
When Martha Long’s feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser (“that bandy aul bastard”), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is regularly sent out to beg and more often steal, and her wiles (as a child of 7, 8) are often... Read more >
A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
Written by Martha Long
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-414-5 (1-60980-414-7)
When Martha Long’s feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser (“that bandy aul bastard”), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is regularly sent out to beg and more often steal, and her wiles (as a child of 7, 8) are often... Read more >
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All Souls
A Family Story from Southie
Written by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7213-4 (0-8070-7213-3)
Common Reading Programs that have selected All Souls:
Colleges and Universities:
Northeastern University
Northridge College
Springfield Technical Community College
Tufts University
Suffolk University
Dean College
All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger’s crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald’s Southie... Read more >
A Family Story from Southie
Written by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7213-4 (0-8070-7213-3)
Common Reading Programs that have selected All Souls:
Colleges and Universities:
Northeastern University
Northridge College
Springfield Technical Community College
Tufts University
Suffolk University
Dean College
All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger’s crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald’s Southie... Read more >
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More Bread or I'll Appear
Written by Emer Martin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 6, 2000
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72009-0 (0-385-72009-2)
In a young, brash, hip new voice that combines irony and nervous tenderness with a bold and provocative appeal, Emer Martin introduces us to an Irish family unlike any other.
With her father institutionalized, and her brother's uncanny string of near-death misses, it's left to 28-year-old Keelin to find her oldest sister... Read more >
Written by Emer Martin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 6, 2000
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72009-0 (0-385-72009-2)
In a young, brash, hip new voice that combines irony and nervous tenderness with a bold and provocative appeal, Emer Martin introduces us to an Irish family unlike any other.
With her father institutionalized, and her brother's uncanny string of near-death misses, it's left to 28-year-old Keelin to find her oldest sister... Read more >
Let the Great World Spin
A Novel
Written by Colum McCann
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: November 30, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7399-0 (0-8129-7399-2)
Winner, 2009 National Book Award for Fiction
A 2009 New York Times Notable Book
A 2009 Booklist Editors’ Choice Selection
Winner, 2011 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
Selected for Common Reading at:
Boston College
Duke University
New York University
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Colum McCann
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: November 30, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7399-0 (0-8129-7399-2)
Winner, 2009 National Book Award for Fiction
A 2009 New York Times Notable Book
A 2009 Booklist Editors’ Choice Selection
Winner, 2011 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
Selected for Common Reading at:
Boston College
Duke University
New York University
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in... Read more >
Notes from a Coma
Written by Mike McCormack
Format: Trade Paperback, 199 pages
Publisher: Soho Press
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-61695-232-7 (1-61695-232-6)
JJ O’ Malley, adopted from a Romanian orphanage by a single father in the west of Ireland, grows up a permanent outsider, and yet he finds his place in the community. At least until his world is shaken by the death of his best friend, and he volunteers for the “Somnos... Read more >
Written by Mike McCormack
Format: Trade Paperback, 199 pages
Publisher: Soho Press
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-61695-232-7 (1-61695-232-6)
JJ O’ Malley, adopted from a Romanian orphanage by a single father in the west of Ireland, grows up a permanent outsider, and yet he finds his place in the community. At least until his world is shaken by the death of his best friend, and he volunteers for the “Somnos... Read more >
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Gone to Amerikay
Written by Derek Mcculloch
Illustrated by Colleen Doran
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-2351-9 (1-4012-2351-6)
Ciara O’Dwyer is a young woman raising a daughter alone in the Five Points slums of 1870; Johnny McCormack is a struggling actor drawn to the nascent folk music movement in Greenwich Village 1960; and Lewis Healy is a successful Irishman who’s come to present-day Manhattan on his wife’s anniversary-present promise... Read more >
Written by Derek Mcculloch
Illustrated by Colleen Doran
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-2351-9 (1-4012-2351-6)
Ciara O’Dwyer is a young woman raising a daughter alone in the Five Points slums of 1870; Johnny McCormack is a struggling actor drawn to the nascent folk music movement in Greenwich Village 1960; and Lewis Healy is a successful Irishman who’s come to present-day Manhattan on his wife’s anniversary-present promise... Read more >
The Cripple of Inishmaan
Written by Martin McDonagh
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70523-6 (0-375-70523-6)
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part... Read more >
Written by Martin McDonagh
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70523-6 (0-375-70523-6)
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part... Read more >
All Will Be Well
Written by John McGahern
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7986-5 (1-4000-7986-1)
From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer.
McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children growing up in rural County Leitrim, a childhood was marked by his father’s violent nature and the early death... Read more >
Written by John McGahern
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7986-5 (1-4000-7986-1)
From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer.
McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children growing up in rural County Leitrim, a childhood was marked by his father’s violent nature and the early death... Read more >
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By the Lake
Written by John McGahern
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74402-3 (0-679-74402-9)
Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a new novel that, with insight, humor, and deep sympathy, brings to vivid life the world and the people of a contemporary Irish village.
It is a village flirting with the more sophisticated trappings of... Read more >
Written by John McGahern
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74402-3 (0-679-74402-9)
Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a new novel that, with insight, humor, and deep sympathy, brings to vivid life the world and the people of a contemporary Irish village.
It is a village flirting with the more sophisticated trappings of... Read more >
The Collected Stories
Written by John McGahern
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74401-6 (0-679-74401-0)
These 34 funny, tragic, bracing, and acerbic stories represent the complete short fiction of one of Ireland's finest living writers. On struggling farms, in Dublin's rain-drenched streets, or in parched exile in Franco's Spain, McGahern's characters wage a confused but touching war against the facts of life. Read more >
Written by John McGahern
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74401-6 (0-679-74401-0)
These 34 funny, tragic, bracing, and acerbic stories represent the complete short fiction of one of Ireland's finest living writers. On struggling farms, in Dublin's rain-drenched streets, or in parched exile in Franco's Spain, McGahern's characters wage a confused but touching war against the facts of life. Read more >
Irish Poems
Edited by Matthew McGuire
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: February 1, 2011
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-59498-3 (0-307-59498-X)
Irish Poems is a treasury of poetry from the Emerald Isle, stretching back fourteen centuries.
From the romantic ballad to the rebel song, from devotional Christian verse to revivals of ancient Celtic myth, poetry has long been Ireland’s most eloquent response to its turbulent and colorful history. Irish Poems gives us... Read more >
Edited by Matthew McGuire
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: February 1, 2011
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-59498-3 (0-307-59498-X)
Irish Poems is a treasury of poetry from the Emerald Isle, stretching back fourteen centuries.
From the romantic ballad to the rebel song, from devotional Christian verse to revivals of ancient Celtic myth, poetry has long been Ireland’s most eloquent response to its turbulent and colorful history. Irish Poems gives us... Read more >
The Banyan Tree
A Novel
Written by Christopher Nolan
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72068-7 (0-385-72068-8)
Minnie O’Brien is a widow in her eighties fighting to keep her farm from the clutches of her avaricious neighbor. Her three grown children long since gone, she trudges through her daily chores in the hope that her prodigal youngest will one day return to claim his birthright. Lushly written and... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Christopher Nolan
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72068-7 (0-385-72068-8)
Minnie O’Brien is a widow in her eighties fighting to keep her farm from the clutches of her avaricious neighbor. Her three grown children long since gone, she trudges through her daily chores in the hope that her prodigal youngest will one day return to claim his birthright. Lushly written and... Read more >
The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien
Written by Flann O'Brien
Introduction by Keith Donohue
Format: Hardcover, 824 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26749-8 (0-307-26749-0)
Flann O’Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novels–collected here in one volume–are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius.
O’Brien’s masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds, is an exuberant literary send-up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth... Read more >
Written by Flann O'Brien
Introduction by Keith Donohue
Format: Hardcover, 824 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26749-8 (0-307-26749-0)
Flann O’Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novels–collected here in one volume–are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius.
O’Brien’s masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds, is an exuberant literary send-up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth... Read more >
The Best of Frank O'Connor
Written by Frank O'Connor
Introduction by Julian Barnes
Format: Hardcover, 712 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26904-1 (0-307-26904-3)
The most generous one-volume collection ever published of short stories, autobiographical writings,poetry, and essays by the writer Yeats called “Ireland’s Chekhov.”
Selected and arranged thematically by Julian Barnes, the rich mix of writings in The Best of Frank O’Connor starts off with his most famous short story, “Guests of the Nation,” set... Read more >
Written by Frank O'Connor
Introduction by Julian Barnes
Format: Hardcover, 712 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26904-1 (0-307-26904-3)
The most generous one-volume collection ever published of short stories, autobiographical writings,poetry, and essays by the writer Yeats called “Ireland’s Chekhov.”
Selected and arranged thematically by Julian Barnes, the rich mix of writings in The Best of Frank O’Connor starts off with his most famous short story, “Guests of the Nation,” set... Read more >
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Collected Stories
Written by Frank O'Connor
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 1982
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-71048-8 (0-394-71048-7)
"One of the masters of the short story." -- Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek
"In his 63 years, Frank O'Connor produced an impressive amount of work...but it's his short stories that guarantee his immortality. They are encapsulated universes. While most modern stories focus on a single moment, Frank O'Connor's generally sum up the... Read more >
Written by Frank O'Connor
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 1982
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-71048-8 (0-394-71048-7)
"One of the masters of the short story." -- Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek
"In his 63 years, Frank O'Connor produced an impressive amount of work...but it's his short stories that guarantee his immortality. They are encapsulated universes. While most modern stories focus on a single moment, Frank O'Connor's generally sum up the... Read more >
