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Thy Neighbour's Wife, is a story of love, religion, and patriotism set in rural Ireland in 1910. Religion and patriotism permeate the story line, as they did Irish society in 1910. Lily McSherry returns to her island home with her young husband. Absent from the welcoming crowd at the pier is Lily's first love, Hugh, now Fr. McMahon, the island curate. In a powerful story of conflict involving, religion, love, and politics, McMahon is tort...

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PublisherThis Title is part of the "HardPress Classics Series". In this series we are bringing a treasure throve of old books back into print using our own state-of-the-art techniques. Since we are working with old material - occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these reproductions. We have managed to fix the vast majority of issues though, and we believe these books deserve to be persevered for future generations to enjoy.

Excerpt from The InformerA drizzling rain was falling from a black bulg ing sky. Now and again a ¿ock of hailstones, driven by a sudden gust of querulous wind, clattered down the lane, falling in little dancing groups on the hard, perspiring asphalt.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgott...

Excerpt from A Tourist's Guide to IrelandForeigner. There are jokes in every literature about his capacity for snoring, about his clothes and about his wife, who seems to be always either very fat or very skinny.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technol...

Excerpt from The InformerA drizzling rain was falling from a black bulg ing sky. Now and again a ¿ock of hailstones, driven by a sudden gust of querulous wind, clattered down the lane, falling in little dancing groups on the hard, perspiring asphalt.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgott...

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Tutti gli autori irlandesi di short story, forse in virtù di un comune DNA, sembrano possedere un'incredibile abilità narrativa, ricorrendo alle tonalità più svariate nel descrivere minuziosamente le figure più tipiche delle comunità sia rurali che urbane. I racconti irlandesi sono, sul piano letterario, l'equivalente artistico di una ricchissima galleria di ritratti. Insieme a Frank O'Connor, Daniel Corkery, Sean O'Faolain e Seamus O'Kelly, L...

O'Flaherty (1896-1984), a young founder of the Irish Communist Party, was a member of the later generation of Irish renaissance writers. By his own admission he set out for Moscow on April 23, 1930, to collect material for a book on Bolshevism.

Ein kräftiger junger Mann liegt mit einer seltsamen Krankheit namens Liebe darnieder. Eine alte Dame muss als Jockey bei einem Pferderennen einspringen. Ein kleiner Junge träumt von seinem ersten Anzug. Das Leben eines Neugeborenen blüht auf, während dasjenige seines Großvaters schwindet. O'Flahertys Erzählungen haben das große Ganze des menschlichen Lebens im Blick genauso wie das unverwechselbare Detail. Zartheit und Heftigkeit, diskretes Pa...

Im Jahr 1845 begann für Irland eine Folge von Katastrophen, die alle gewohnten Entbehrungen übertraf. Durch eine Kartoffelkrankheit sahen sich die Menschen ihres Hauptnahrungsmittels beraubt, die Pachtzinse waren nicht mehr aufzubringen. Die kleinen Pächter standen - der eine früher, der andere später - buchstäblich vor dem Nichts. Die Leute starben an Flecktyphus oder 'einfach' an Hunger ...

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