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The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction

by Colm Tóibín (Editor)

Other authors: John Banim (Contributor), John Banville (Contributor), Leland Bardwell (Contributor), Sebastian Barry (Contributor), Mary Beckett (Contributor)86 more, Samuel Beckett (Contributor), Sam Hanna Bell (Contributor), Dermot Bolger (Contributor), Elizabeth Bowen (Contributor), Clare Boylan (Contributor), Maeve Brennan (Contributor), John Broderick (Contributor), William Carleton (Contributor), Shane Connaughton (Contributor), Daniel Corkery (Contributor), Anthony Cronin (Contributor), Ita Daly (Contributor), Seamus Deane (Contributor), Emma Donoghue (Contributor), Mary Dorcey (Contributor), Roddy Doyle (Contributor), Maria Edgeworth (Contributor), Anne Enright (Contributor), Brian Friel (Contributor), Carlo Gébler (Contributor), Oliver Goldsmith (Contributor), Gerald Griffin (Contributor), Hugo Hamilton (Contributor), Dermot Healy (Contributor), Aidan Higgins (Contributor), Desmond Hogan (Contributor), Jennifer Johnston (Contributor), Neil Jordan (Contributor), James Joyce (Contributor), Patrick Kavanagh (Contributor), Molly Keane (Contributor), Benedict Kiely (Contributor), Mary Lavin (Contributor), Emily Lawless (Contributor), J. Sheridan Le Fanu (Contributor), Maurice Leitch (Contributor), Mary Leland (Contributor), Charles Lever (Contributor), Seosamh Mac Grianna (Contributor), Tom Mac Intyre (Contributor), Bernard MacLaverty (Contributor), Bryan MacMahon (Contributor), Deirdre Madden (Contributor), Aidan Mathews (Contributor), Charles Robert Maturin (Contributor), Eugene McCabe (Contributor), Patrick McCabe (Contributor), Colum McCann (Contributor), John McGahern (Contributor), Michael McLaverty (Contributor), Eoin McNamee (Contributor), Brian Moore (Contributor), George Moore (Contributor), Lady Morgan (Contributor), Rosa Mulholland (Contributor), Val Mulkerns (Contributor), Iris Murdoch (Contributor), Edna O'Brien (Contributor), Flann O'Brien (Contributor), Kate O'Brien (Contributor), Frank O'Connor (Contributor), Joseph O'Connor (Contributor), Peadar O'Donnell (Contributor), Julia O'Faolain (Contributor), Sean O'Faolain (Contributor), Liam O'Flaherty (Contributor), Maírtín Ó Cadhain (Contributor), David Park (Contributor), Glenn Patterson (Contributor), James Plunkett (Contributor), K. Arnold Price (Contributor), Frank Ronan (Contributor), Martin Ross (Contributor), Frances Sheridan (Contributor), Edith Somerville (Contributor), James Stephens (Contributor), Laurence Sterne (Contributor), Bram Stoker (Contributor), Francis Stuart (Contributor), Jonathan Swift (Contributor), Katherine Cecil Thurston (Contributor), Robert Tressell (Contributor), William Trevor (Contributor), Anthony Trollope (Contributor), Oscar Wilde (Contributor), Robert McLiam Wilson (Contributor)

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"The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction represents the entire canon of Irish fiction in English from Jonathan Swift, born in 1667, to Emma Donoghue, born in 1969. In his comprehensive introduction Colm Toibin describes the particular difficulties faced by Irish writers before the twentieth century, which gave rise to forms of fiction that were strikingly different from the classic French and English novels of the nineteenth century. In a culture where certain connections between the writer and the reader - indeed between the individual and society itself - were absent, it was Gothic literature, with its menacing visions of crumbling houses and discontented peasants, that flourished."--Jacket.… (more)
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"The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction represents the entire canon of Irish fiction in English from Jonathan Swift, born in 1667, to Emma Donoghue, born in 1969. In his comprehensive introduction Colm Toibin describes the particular difficulties faced by Irish writers before the twentieth century, which gave rise to forms of fiction that were strikingly different from the classic French and English novels of the nineteenth century. In a culture where certain connections between the writer and the reader - indeed between the individual and society itself - were absent, it was Gothic literature, with its menacing visions of crumbling houses and discontented peasants, that flourished."--Jacket.

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