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Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
[1957, c1956]
Language
English
Description
"Dust jacket notes: "'What would happen,' blandly asks the twenty-one-year-old G.B.S. of the five-year-old Dorothea, 'if I told you that Aunt Tabitha was a foolish old maid, your mother a frivolous and selfish woman, your father a perverter of the truth for gold, and the clergyman the worst man in church?' This roguish question sets the tone of this hitherto unpublished Shavian delight. We are told by the editor that 'A Practical System of Moral Education...
Series
Modern library of the world's best books volume 288
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1954
Language
English
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Series
Language
English
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"The obsessive narrator, who opens the novel asking, "Where now? Who now? When now?" is a disembodied person, living in a large jar in a restaurant window in Paris. Essentially "unnameable," the narrator is referred to as Mahood, Worm, and Basil, in a series of tales. The final sentence in the novel is a long dramatic monologue. The narrator concludes with the desire to continue living despite an inescapable sense of anguish and entropy: "I can't...
7) Oscar Wilde
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English
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This is the first large-scale edition of Wilde's work to pay proper tribute to the true breadth of his talent. Each of the literary genres which he mastered is represented. In her 'Introduction and Notes, ' Isobel Murray provides a fascinating insight into Wilde's phenomenal knowledge of English, American, French, and Classical literature, enabling the reader to appreciate and admire fully the range of literary and mythological references which enrich...
9) The lake
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Language
English
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Father Gogarty's changing perceptions of the landscape he encounters during his frequent walks around a lake in a remote area of Ireland lead him to question some fundamental principles of the Catholic Church and to come to a more instinctive relationship with God. The afterword discusses Moore's literary style and the influence of Zola, Dujardin, and his own later writing which led to two revisions of The Lake.
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English
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Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett: These four masters of Irish literature created works of startling innovation and unparalleled literary merit. They defied popular expectations and confounded critics with unique masterpieces that one might think of as puzzles, the solution of which lies at the heart of the modern age. Understanding the works of these greats, all associated to some degree with the Irish Literary Revival, is...