The Penguin book of Irish short stories
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The Penguin book of Irish short stories
（Penguin books）（Penguin fiction）
Penguin, 2011, c1981
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The Penguin book of Irish short stories : James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien, Neil Jordan, Bernard McLaverty, Gillman Noonan
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"Reissued in this edition 2011"--T.p. verso
Contents of Works
- The daughter of King Under-Wave
- The cards of the gambler
- Wildgoose lodge
- Sir Brigid's flood
- Lisheen races, second-hand
- Home sickness
- The ploughing of Leaca-na-Naomh
- Grace / James Joyce
- The tent
- The conger eel
- Lovers of the lake
- The Luceys
- The cat jumps
- A memory
- The game cock
- The American apples
- First conjugation
- Fairyland
- "They also serve--"
- A meeting in middle age
- Desert island
- Meles Vulgaris
- Ballintierna in the morning
- Lebensraum
- Return of the boy
- The eagles and the trumpets
- Mr. Sing my heart's delight
- Gold watch
- A cut above the rest
- That dark accomplice
- Let the old cry
- The bracelet
- The creature
- Such good friends
- Sand
- Red jelly
- Secret
- Dear parents, I'm working for the EEC!
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'Do the Irish have, in relation to anybody else, any special capacity for the short story?'
In this collection of thirty-eight short stories covering many generations and moods of Irish writing, this question is emphatically answered in the affirmative. These mercurial, intoxicating, witty and sometimes sad stories range from Lady Gregory's moving retelling of an ancient love story through to the extraordinary and prolific William Trevor.
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