Irish Fiction, the Penguin Book of

by Colm Tóibín

Book Overview

"In Irish fiction there are no happy families; there is no novel which ends in a wedding. Instead, the tone is melancholy and the theme is brokenness; the stories and novels (and, indeed, the plays... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670891088
• ISBN13: 9780670891085
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 1085 Pages
• Weight: 5.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A Reader in Western Virginia

This is an excellent introduction to Irish Literature, to be read through or just sampled. The selections are long enough to help the reader to decide where they'd like to start in a large body of literature. The perfect textbook for Modern Irish Literature 110.

1086 pages of Irish Literature!

The Penguin book of Irish Fiction is a fine way to sample a variety of works by Irish writers, ranging from an excerpt of Gullivers Travels by Swift to James Joyce's The Dead. Some short stories are included in their entirety, but most of the novels are excerpted from the originals, which is fine if you just want to sample various writers or decide where to go from here... While planning a trip to Ireland, I found this book to be a good one volume education in Irish Literature. In fact, with 1086 pages of very small print, I doubt I can finish it in time.