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Absolution by Murderby Peter TremayneISBN 0451192990 (0-451-19299-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Anatomy Schoolby Bernard Mac LavertyISBN 0393324575 (0-393-32457-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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At Weddings and Wakesby Alice McDermottISBN 0385319851 (0-385-31985-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Autobiographiesby W. B. YeatsISBN 0333306368 (0-333-30636-8)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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The Beauty Queen of Leenaneby Martin McDonaghISBN 041370730X (0-413-70730-X)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane'Book summary:[via]Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative aging mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific.The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996.More editions of The Beauty Queen of Leenane:
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Beowulfby Burton RaffelISBN 0451527402 (0-451-52740-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The epic poem of war and adventure.
Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest. But no one knows exactly when it was composed, or by whom, or why. As a social document this great epic reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death.
* Burton Raffel's modern language translation from the original Old English remains the most celebrated introduction of the poem to students and the general reader alike
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Beowulfby E. Talbot DonaldsonISBN 0393096874 (0-393-09687-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The text of this edition of Beowulf is based on the highly regarded Donaldson prose translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem.
Accurate and literally faithful, the Donaldson translation conveys the full meaning and spirit of the original.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with the historical, linguistic, and literary settings of Beowulf, including Robert C. Hughes on the origins of the Old English language, E. Talbot Donaldsons presentation of the major features of Old English poetry, new material on Beowulfs tribes and genealogies, three maps, and a facsimile illustration of the manuscript.
"Criticism" collects seven new and wide-ranging interpretations of Beowulf by Fred C. Robinson, Roberta Frank, John D. Niles, Michael Lapidge, Joyce Hill, Helen Bennett, and Nicholas Howe.
A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography are included. Maps and illustrations [via] -
Beowulf: An Illustrated Editionby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0393320979 (0-393-32097-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition'Book summary:In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our imagination has been less secure. In the introduction to his translation, Seamus Heaney argues that Beowulf's role as a required text for many English students obscured its mysteries and "mythic potency." Now, thanks to the Irish poet's marvelous recreation (in both senses of the word) under Alfred David's watch, this dark, doom-ridden work gets its day in the sun.
There are endless pleasures in Heaney's analysis, but readers should head straight for the poem and then to the prose. (Some will also take advantage of the dual-language edition and do some linguistic teasing out of their own.) The epic's outlines seem simple, depicting Beowulf's three key battles with the scaliest brutes in all of art: Grendel, Grendel's mother (who's in a suitably monstrous snit after her son's dismemberment and death), and then, 50 years later, a gold-hoarding dragon "threatening the night sky / with streamers of fire." Along the way, however, we are treated to flashes back and forward and to a world view in which a thane's allegiance to his lord and to God is absolute. In the first fight, the man from Geatland must travel to Denmark to take on the "shadow-stalker" terrorizing Heorot Hall. Here Beowulf and company set sail:
Men climbed eagerly up the gangplank,
After a fearsome night victory over march-haunting and heath-marauding Grendel, our high-born hero is suitably strewn with gold and praise, the queen declaring: "Your sway is wide as the wind's home, / as the sea around cliffs." Few will disagree. And remember, Beowulf has two more trials to undergo.
sand churned in the surf, warriors loaded
a cargo of weapons, shining war-gear
in the vessel's hold, then heaved out,
away with a will in their wood-wreathed ship.
Over the waves, with the wind behind her
and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird...Heaney claims that when he began his translation it all too often seemed "like trying to bring down a megalith with a toy hammer." The poem's challenges are many: its strong four-stress line, heavy alliteration, and profusion of kennings could have been daunting. (The sea is, among other things, "the whale-road," the sun is "the world's candle," and Beowulf's third opponent is a "vile sky-winger." When it came to over-the-top compound phrases, the temptations must have been endless, but for the most part, Heaney smiles, he "called a sword a sword.") Yet there are few signs of effort in the poet's Englishing. Heaney varies his lines with ease, offering up stirring dialogue, action, and description while not stinting on the epic's mix of fate and fear. After Grendel's misbegotten mother comes to call, the king's evocation of her haunted home may strike dread into the hearts of men and beasts, but it's a gift to the reader:
A few miles from here
In Heaney's hands, the poem's apparent archaisms and Anglo-Saxon attitudes--its formality, blood-feuds, and insane courage--turn the art of an ancient island nation into world literature. --Kerry Fried [via]
a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch
above a mere; the overhanging bank
is a maze of tree-roots mirrored in its surface.
At night there, something uncanny happens:
the water burns. And the mere bottom
has never been sounded by the sons of men.
On its bank, the heather-stepper halts:
the hart in flight from pursuing hounds
will turn to face them with firm-set horns
and die in the wood rather than dive
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Beowulf : A Dual Language Editionby Howell D. ChickeringISBN 0385062133 (0-385-06213-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Beowulf: A Verse Translationby Daniel Donoghue, Seamus HeaneyISBN 0393975800 (0-393-97580-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: A Verse Translation'Book summary:Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaneys translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review).
The translation that "rides boldly through the reefs of scholarship" (The Observer) is combined with first-rate annotation. No reading knowledge of Old English is assumed. Heaneys clear and insightful introduction to Beowulf provides students with an understanding of both the poems history in the canon and Heaneys own translation process. [via]More editions of Beowulf: A Verse Translation:
Blessed Are the Cheesemakersby Sara-Kate LynchISBN 0446693014 (0-446-69301-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Celtsby Elona MalterreISBN 0440200598 (0-440-20059-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Celts'Book summary:This book has had a lot of bad reviews. While it seems that sex may sell a book, this writer really did it well in describing it in detail. It spruced up our sex life! I think it is correct on the historical mythological sense, but the sex was too much. On the second read, I noticed how the figurative metaphors were wonderful, while the steamy scenes kept in check how two lovers defied the ancient laws & customs back then. Whether Ireland was more sexual based back then, it would be fair to say that it was very primitive back then. I would read this book again especially if I feel like it again. It was rather a fun steamy book for a summer day... Laura J. [via]
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The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentlemanby James Patrick DonleavyISBN 0440019036 (0-440-01903-6)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman'Book summary:His future is disastrous, his present indecent, his past divine. He Is Darcy Dancer, youthful squire of Andromeda Park, the great gray stone mansion inhabited by Crooks, the cross-eyed butler, and the sexy, aristocratic Miss Von B.[via]More editions of The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman:
The Dirty War: Covert Strategies and Tactics Used in Political Conflictsby Martin DillonISBN 041592281X (0-415-92281-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragmentby Samuel Beckett, Ruby CohnISBN 0394624890 (0-394-62489-0)
Softcover, Grove Press
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Down All the Daysby Christy BrownISBN 0436070901 (0-436-07090-1)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Druid Timeby Jack HollandISBN 0396087965 (0-396-08796-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The End of the Poem: Oxford Lecturesby Paul MuldoonISBN 0374148104 (0-374-14810-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures'Book summary:In The End of the Poem, Paul Muldoon, "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War" (The Times Literary Supplement), presents engaging, rigorous, and insightful explorations of a diverse group of poems, from Yeats's "All Souls' Night" to Stevie Smith's "I Remember" to Fernando Pessoa's "Autopsychography." Here Muldoon reminds us that the word "poem" comes, via French, from the Latin and Greek: "a thing made or created." He asks: Can a poem ever be a freestanding, discrete structure, or must it always interface with the whole of its author's bibliography--and biography? Muldoon explores the boundlessness, the illimitability, created by influence, what Robert Frost meant when he insisted that "the way to read a poem in prose or verse is in the light of all the other poems ever written." And he writes of the boundaries or borders between writer and reader and the extent to which one determines the role of the other.[via]
At the end, Muldoon returns to the most fruitful, and fraught, aspect of the phrase "the end of the poem": the interpretation that centers on the "aim" or "function" of a poem, and the question of whether or not the end of the poem is the beginning of criticism. Irreverent, deeply learned, often funny, and always stimulating, The End of the Poem is a vigorous and accessible approach to looking at poetry anew.More editions of The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures:
Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001by Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374528780 (0-374-52878-0)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Firefly Summerby Maeve BinchyISBN 0440204194 (0-440-20419-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Firefly Summer'Book summary:It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old twins... and such wonderful dreams.... It was a summer of innocence... but all that is about to change this fateful summer of 1962 when American millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm and a pocketful of money... when love and hate vie for a town's quiet heart and old traditions begin to crumble away.... It was a summer of love that would never come again.... A time that has been captured forever in Maeve Binchy's compelling family drama... a novel you will never forget. [via]
Fools of Fortuneby William TrevorISBN 0370309537 (0-370-30953-7)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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Foreverby Peter HamillISBN 0316735698 (0-316-73569-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forever'Book summary:This widely acclaimed bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains ... forever. Through the eyes of Cormac O'Connor - granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan - we watch New York grow from a tiny settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the thriving metropolis of today. And through Cormac's remarkable adventures in both love and war, we come to know the city's buried secrets - the way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous human energies, and, above all, by hope. [via]
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Good Behaviourby Molly KeaneISBN 0394518187 (0-394-51818-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Grannyby Brendan O'CarrollISBN 0452281849 (0-452-28184-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Greener Shore: A Novel of the Druids of Hiberniaby Morgan LlywelynISBN 0345477669 (0-345-47766-9)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0451527321 (0-451-52732-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This masterpiece tells the incredible tale of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon. He is shipwrecked upon the shores of Lilliput, where the residents are only six inches high, then journeys takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, populated by giants, a floating island in the sky, and a land where horses have intelligence and man lives as a beast. His adventures, while read by children as an adventure story, are a devastating satire of society and human foibles. Part travelogue, part realism, part symbolism, Gullivers Travels remains a treasured classic of literature. [via]
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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0395051231 (0-395-05123-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings'Book summary:This volume helps readers situate one of the most popular adventure novels ever written, Gulliver's Travels, within the 18th-century process of inventing and resisting Great Britain. Ideas of nationalism--both Irish and British--are questioned and explored. Gulliver's Travels is interpreted as a critique of British colonial aggression, and has special appeal for courses in British literature and Irish studies. Supplemental materials include additional writings by Swift, such as pamphlets (including the famous "A Modest Proposal"), sermons, poems, and letters. A wealth of critical essays adds further context. [via]
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Harry's Gameby Gerald SeymourISBN 0394499026 (0-394-49902-6)
Hardcover, Random House
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Horse Latitudesby Paul MuldoonISBN 0374173052 (0-374-17305-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horse Latitudes'Book summary:The title of Horse Latitudes, Paul Muldoon's tenth collection of poetry, refers to those areas thirty degrees north and south of the equator where sailing ships tend to be becalmed, where stasis (if not stagnation) is the order of the day. From Bosworth Field to Beijing, the Boyne to Bull Run, from a series of text messages to the nineteenth-century Irish poet Tom Moore to an elegy for Warren Zevon, and from post-Agreement Ireland to George W. Bush's America, this book presents us with fields of battle and fields of debate, in which we often seem to have come to a standstill, but in which language that has been debased may yet be restruck and made current to our predicament. Horse Latitudes is a triumphant new collection by one of the most esteemed poets of our time.[via]More editions of Horse Latitudes:
How to Be Irish: (Even If You Already Are)by Sean Kelly, Rosemary RogersISBN 0375752366 (0-375-75236-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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I Hardly Knew Youby Edna O'BrienISBN 0380451387 (0-380-45138-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Ireland's Women: Writings Past and Presentby A. Norman Jeffares, Brendan Kennelly, Katie DonovanISBN 0393313603 (0-393-31360-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Irish America: Coming into Cloverby Maureen DezellISBN 038549596X (0-385-49596-X)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Irish America: Coming into Clover'Book summary:Old-time politics, piety, and St. Patricks Day parades loom large when the Irish come to the American mind. None truly represents the complex legacy or contributions of the nations oldest ethnic group, who rank among the most highly educated and affluent Americans today.
In Irish America, Maureen Dezell takes a new and invigorated look at Americans of Irish Catholic ancestry who they are, and how they got that way. A welcome antidote to so many standard-issue, sentimental representations of the Irish in the United States, Irish America focuses on popular culture as well as politics; the Irish in the Midwest and West as well as the East; the new Irish immigrants; the complicated role of the Church today; and the unheralded heritage of Irish American women. Deftly weaving history, reporting, and the observations of more than 100 men and women of Irish descent on both sides of the Atlantic, Dezell presents an insightful and highly readable portrait of a people and a culture. [via]More editions of Irish America: Coming into Clover:
Irish America : Coming into Clover; the Evolution of a People and a Cultureby Maureen DezellISBN 0385495951 (0-385-49595-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Artby Matthew HartISBN 0452284619 (0-452-28461-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Juno & Julietby Julian GoughISBN 0385721617 (0-385-72161-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Juno and Julietby Julian Gough, Nan A. TaleseISBN 0385501722 (0-385-50172-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Lambby Bernard Mac LavertyISBN 0393317013 (0-393-31701-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Leilaby James Patrick DonleavyISBN 0385292600 (0-385-29260-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Lies of Silenceby Brian MooreISBN 0380715473 (0-380-71547-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Lilac Busby Maeve BinchyISBN 0440213029 (0-440-21302-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lilac Bus'Book summary:The Journey -- Every Friday night young Ron Fitzgerald's lilac-colored minibus leaves Dublin for the Irish country town of Rathdoon with seven weekend commuters on board. All of them, from the joking bank porter, Mikey Burns, who plays the buffoon while his brother makes a fortune in the family business, to the rich doctor's daughter, Dee Burke, who is having a secret affair with a married man, have their reasons for making the journey. The Destination, Rathdoon, is the kind of Irish Village where family histories are shared and scandals don't stay secret for long. And this weekend, when Tom's bus pulls in, the riders find the unexpected waiting for them... as each of their very private lives unfolds to reveal a sharp betrayal of the heart, a young man's crime, and chance for new dreams among the eight intriguing men and women on... The Lilac Bus. [via]
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Lucia Joyce: To Dance In The Wakeby Carol Loeb ShlossISBN 0374194246 (0-374-19424-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucia Joyce: To Dance In The Wake'Book summary:Whatever spark or gift I possess has been transmitted to Lucia and it has kindled a fire in her brain. James Joyce, 1934[via]
Most accounts of James Joyces family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden. But in this important new book, Carol Loeb Shloss reveals a different, more dramatic truth: her father loved Lucia, and they shared a deep creative bond.
Lucia was born in a paupers hospital and educated haphazardly across Europe as her penniless father pursued his art. She wanted to strike out on her own and in her twenties emerged, to Joyces amazement, as a harbinger of expressive modern dance in Paris. He described her then as a wild, beautiful, fantastic being whose mind was as clear and as unsparing as the lightning. The familys only reader of Joyce, she was a child of the imaginative realms her father created, and even after emotional turmoil wrought havoc with her and she was hospitalized in the 1930s, he saw in her a life lived in tandem with his own.
Though most of the documents about Lucia have been destroyed, Shloss painstakingly reconstructs the poignant complexities of her lifeand with them a vital episode in the early history of psychiatry, for in Joyces efforts to help her he sought the help of Europes most advanced doctors, including Jung. In Lucias world Shloss has also uncovered important material that deepens our understanding of Finnegans Wake, the book that redefined modern literature.More editions of Lucia Joyce: To Dance In The Wake:
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The Mabinogionby Gwyn Jones, Thomas JonesISBN 0375411755 (0-375-41175-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Preface by John Updike
The 11 stories of The Mabinogion, first assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, reach far back into the earlier oral traditions of Welsh poetry.
Closely linked to the Arthurian legends--King Arthur himself is a character--they summon up a world of mystery and magic that is still evoked by the Welsh landscape they so vividly describe. Mingling fantasy with tales of chivalry, these stories not only prefigure the later medieval romances, but stand on their own as magnificent evocations of a golden age of Celtic civilization.
This translation of The Mabinogion has, since its first appearance in 1949, been recognized as a classic in its own right. It was last revised by Gwyn Jones and his wife, Mair, in 1993. [via]More editions of The Mabinogion:
Medieval Ireland: The Enduring Traditionby Michael RichterISBN 0333452712 (0-333-45271-2)
Softcover, Macmillan Education
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Michael Collins and Troubles: The Struggle for Irish Freedom 1912-1922by Ulick O'ConnorISBN 0393316459 (0-393-31645-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Mother Ireland : A Memoirby Edna O'BrienISBN 0452280508 (0-452-28050-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Mothers and Sonsby Colm ToibinISBN 0330441825 (0-330-44182-5)
Hardcover, Picador
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Nory Ryan's Songby Patricia Reilly GiffISBN 0440418291 (0-440-41829-1)
Softcover, Yearling Books
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Object Lessonsby Anna QuindlenISBN 0449001016 (0-449-00101-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Object Lessons'Book summary:A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [and] the ardent reading of domestic lives." -THE NEW YORK TIMES It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is despertately trying to master the object lessons her grandfather fills her head with. But there is too much going on to concentrate. Everything at home is in upheaval, her grandfather is changing, and Maggie is unsure if what she wants is worth having.... [via]
Onion Eatersby James P. DonleavyISBN 0440366437 (0-440-36643-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Onion Eaters, a Novelby James Patrick DonleavyISBN 0385287550 (0-385-28755-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Patriot Gamesby Tom ClancyISBN 0425109720 (0-425-10972-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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From England to Ireland to America, an explosive wave of violence sweeps a CIA analyst and his family into the deadliest game of our time: international terrorism. An ultra-left-wing faction fo the IRA has targeted the CIA man for his act of salvation in an assasination attempt. And now he must pay ... with his life. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Storiesby Oscar WildeISBN 0375751513 (0-375-75151-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:"Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin." In their ideal of an exquisitely sensitive temperament that thrills to fine shadings in sensation, the principles of the aesthetic (or "decadent") movement are well suited to the tale of terror. No story exemplifies this better than Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. The sparkling wit and zest for life of Wilde's characters combine with cold-blooded acts of horror to generate a deliciously twisted sense of elegance and evil, civilization and degradation. Oscar Wilde, like Edgar Allan Poe, shows us that what we find loathsome and frightening can also be beautiful. [via]
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Picture of Dorian Gray: ISBN 0375751513 (0-375-75151-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: ISBN 0451530454 (0-451-53045-4)
The Playboy of the Western World And Other Playsby J. M. Synge, Welch, Robert (AFT), Edna O'BrienISBN 0451530071 (0-451-53007-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Prince and the Nannyby Cara ColterISBN 0373039409 (0-373-03940-9)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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A Reader's Guide to James Joyceby William York TindallISBN 0374501122 (0-374-50112-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the Ira's Soulby Kevin ToolisISBN 0330342436 (0-330-34243-6)
Hardcover, Picador
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the Ira's Soul'Book summary:This is a detailed and revealing portrait of the world of the IRA. For ten years Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of the men and women who fought the IRA's war against the British state. Each chapter of the book explores a world where history, faith and human savagery dominates lives and deaths. In "Brothers" a whole family is sucked into Ulster's troubles, killing their enemies and then being killed themselves. "Informers" shows the underside of the intelligence war between the British security forces and the IRA, and the bullet-in-the-head consequences for those IRA volunteers who "turn" and betray their one-time comrades. "Martyrs" shows the transformation of an IRA volunteer, whose attempt to ambush and murder goes wrong, and turns him into a martyr for the cause. This book is a history, a map and a guide to the psychological underworld of the world's most enduring terrorist cause. It explains and uncovers the roots of the conflict in Northern Ireland through a series of connected individual portraits of IRA men, from the leaders to the lowest level of volunteer, killed on his first operation. [via]
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The Rising of the Moonby Flynn ConnollyISBN 0345382897 (0-345-38289-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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She Stoops to Conquerby Oliver GoldsmithISBN 0393900460 (0-393-90046-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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So Far from Homeby Barry DenenbergISBN 043955506X (0-439-55506-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0375753737 (0-375-75373-7)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Sons and Lovers: ISBN 0394604520 (0-394-60452-0)
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A Sort of Homecomingby Robert CreminsISBN 0393320235 (0-393-32023-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Sweeney Astrayby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374518947 (0-374-51894-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Talk of the Townby Ardal O'HanlonISBN 0340693096 (0-340-69309-6)
Hardcover, Scepter/Lir
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Taste of Ireland: In Food and in Picturesby Theodora FitzgibbonISBN 0330024582 (0-330-02458-2)
Softcover, Books Britain
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This Year It Will Be Differentby Maeve BinchyISBN 0440223571 (0-440-22357-1)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Year It Will Be Different'Book summary:From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends, The Glass Lake, and Evening Class comes a stunning collection of fifteen Christmas stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. In "A Typical Irish Christmas," a grieving widower heads for a holiday in Ireland and finds an unexpected destination not just for himself, but for a father and daughter in crisis. . . . In "Pulling Together," a teacher not yet out of her twenties sees her affair with a married man at a turning point as Christmas Eve approaches. . . . And in the title story, "This Year It Will Be Different," a woman with a complacent husband and grown children enters a season that will forever alter her life, and theirs. . .
These stories, and a dozen more, powerfully evoke many lives--from step-families grappling with exes to children caught in grown-up tugs-of-war--during the one holiday when feelings cannot be easily hidden. The time of year may be magical, imbued with meaning. But the situations are timeless. And Maeve Binchy makes us care about them all. [via]More editions of This Year It Will Be Different:
Too Long a Sacrifice: Life and Death in Northern Ireland since 1969by Jack HollandISBN 0396079342 (0-396-07934-2)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead
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True History of the Kelly Gangby Peter CareyISBN 0375724672 (0-375-72467-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True History of the Kelly Gang'Book summary:Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also-at a distance of many thousand miles and more than a century-a Great American Novel.This is Ned Kelly's true confession, in his own words and written on the run for an infant daughter he has never seen. To the authorities, this son of dirt-poor Irish immigrants was a born thief and, ultimately, a cold-blooded murderer; to most other Australians, he was a scapegoat and patriot persecuted by "English" landlords and their agents.With his brothers and two friends, Kelly eluded a massive police manhunt for twenty months, living by his wits and strong heart, supplementing his bushwhacking skills with ingenious bank robberies while enjoying the support of most everyone not in uniform. He declined to flee overseas when he could, bound to win his jailed mother's freedom by any means possible, including his own surrender. In the end, however, she served out her sentence in the same Melbourne prison where, in 1880, her son was hanged.Still his country's most powerful legend, Ned Kelly is here chiefly a man in full: devoted son, loving husband, fretful father, and loyal friend, now speaking as if from the grave. With this mythic outlaw and the story of his mighty travails and exploits, and with all the force of a classic Western, Peter Carey has breathed life into a historical figure who transcends all borders and embodies tragedy, perseverance, and freedom. [via]
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Two Livesby William TrevorISBN 0316433845 (0-316-43384-5)
Softcover, Little Brown Uk
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Unexpurgated Codeby DonleavyISBN 044007794X (0-440-07794-X)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence
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W. B. Yeats: Selected Poetryby A. Norman JeffaresISBN 033031520X (0-330-31520-X)
Softcover, Pan Books Ltd
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Westies: Inside the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mobby T. J. EnglishISBN 0399135405 (0-399-13540-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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