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Modern Irish short stories / edited by Ben Forkner ; pref. by Anthony Burgess.
LIBRA Special PR8875 .M6 1980
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, English.
- English fiction--Irish authors.
- English fiction.
- Ireland--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Ireland.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Short stories, English.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 557 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Harmondsworth, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, 1980.
- Contents:
- Home sickness / George Moore
- Poisson d'Avril / E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross
- The twisting of the rope / W.B. Yeats
- An autumn night in the hills / J.M. Synge
- Rock-of-the-mass / Daniel Corkery
- The weaver's grave / Seumas O'Kelly
- The blind man / James Stephens
- The dead / James Joyce
- The pedlar's revenge / Liam O'Flaherty
- Summer night / Elizabeth Bowen
- Falling rocks, narrowing road, cul-de-sac, stop / Sean O'Faolain
- In the train / Frank O'Connor
- George / Patrick Kavanagh
- Pastorale / Patrick Boyle
- Dante and the lobster / Samuel Beckett
- Six weeks on and two ashore / Michael McLaverty
- Exile's return / Bryan MacMahon
- The martyr's crown / Flan O'Brien
- Happiness / Mary Lavin
- A ball of malt and Madame Butterfly / Benedict Kiely
- A walk through the summer / James Plunkett
- Killachter meadow / Aidan Higgins
- The ballroom of romance / William Trevor
- The creature / Edna O'Brien
- Cancer / Eugene McCabe
- All sorts of impossible things / John McGahern.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Modern Irish short stories.
- ISBN:
- 0140056696
- 9780140056693
- OCLC:
- 6554913
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