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James Stephens (1882-1950) was an Irish novelist and poet. Stephens wrote many retellings of Irish fairy tales. "The Charwoman's Daughter" originally appeared in 1912.
Author : James Stephens
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434466140
James Stephens (1882-1950) was an Irish novelist and poet. Stephens wrote many retellings of Irish fairy tales. "The Charwoman's Daughter" originally appeared in 1912.
Author : James Stephens
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This is a coming-of-age novel, set in Dublin, and tells the story of Mary Makebelieve. Mary Makebelieve lives with her mother, who is a charwoman, in a one-room tenement flat. While her mother goes out to work every day, Mary wanders the city, observing. This city comes alive in Mary's eyes painting a picture of both domestic and urban life. As she turns 16, she becomes aware of her body changing into a woman's and she is also becoming aware of men. She admires and fears a police officer who takes an interest in her.
Author : James Stephens
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 1926
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
An old woman who spends her days scrubbing the floors might be an unlikely damsel in distress, but Lord Dunsany proves once again his mastery of the fantastical. The Charwoman's Shadow is a beautiful tale of a sorcerer's apprentice who discovers his master's nefarious usage of stolen shadows, and vows to save the charwoman from her slavery.
Author : Michael Pierse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 17,81 MB
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108547567
A History of Irish Working-Class Writing provides a wide-ranging and authoritative chronicle of the writing of Irish working-class experience. Ground-breaking in scholarship and comprehensive in scope, it is a major intervention in Irish Studies scholarship, charting representations of Irish working-class life from eighteenth-century rhymes and songs to the novels, plays and poetry of working-class experience in contemporary Ireland. There are few narrative accounts of Irish radicalism, and even fewer that engage 'history from below'. This book provides original insights in these relatively untilled fields. Exploring workers' experiences in various literary forms, from early to late capitalism, the twenty-two chapters make this book an authoritative and substantial contribution to Irish studies and English literary studies generally.
Author : Barbara Corrado Pope
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453271651
Immigrant girls are disappearing across fin de siècle Paris in a mystery that “shines a light on both the glamor and the grime of” the City of Light (Publishers Weekly). On a sultry night in June 1897, Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov, a young Russian, and two young women transport a dead man through the narrow streets of a working class neighborhood in northeastern Paris. They throw the body into the canal and the girls flee to the Latin Quarter to hide with one of the Russian’s anarchist “comrades.” They do not realize they, too, are being watched. Their subsequent disappearance and the violent acts that follow will set Clarie Martin, a teacher and mother of a toddler, and her husband, magistrate Bernard Martin (last seen in Cezanne’s Quarry and The Blood of Lorraine) on a dangerous quest to rescue them from a vicious killer.
Author : Lord Dunsany
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504073002
A novel of duty and destiny from the pioneering fantasy author, the “inventor of a new mythology and weaver of surprising folklore” (H. P. Lovecraft). In Spain, Gonsalvo, the Lord of the Tower, is in a bind. His daughter is nearing her fifteenth year and should marry soon, yet she has no dowry. To cure the ills of his impoverished family, Gonsalvo turns to his son, Ramon Alonzo. He tells Ramon Alonzo the story of his grandfather, who is owed a favor by a magician. Now that the family is in dire need of money, Gonsalvo sends Ramon Alonzo to the forests beyond Aragona to meet the sorcerer and learn the secrets of the Black Art, in particular, the act of transmuting base metals into gold. Ramon Alonzo does as he is told. But he is warned by the magician’s charwoman that the wizard’s fees are too high to pay. After gifting her with immortality, the magician took her shadow, making her an outcast among the villagers. Heeding her words yet unwilling to give up on his mission, Ramon Alonzo will have to decide just what he is willing to sacrifice—for money, for his family, and for love . . . “Dunsany’s best stories remain unique: nobody else has ever been able to capture his visions.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, Los Angeles Times Book Review “Perhaps the strongest single influence in the development of fantasy fiction in the present century.” —L. Sprague de Camp “Lord Dunsany is the great grandfather of us all.” —Jane Yolen, winner of the National Book Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award
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Page : 836 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Cookery
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Author : James Stephens
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775459608
Pass a pleasant afternoon with this delightful collection of short stories. Simple but not simplistic, these diverting tales are rendered in exquisitely rich and often playful language that will have you lingering over sentences and highlighting your favorite passages so you can revisit them again and again. The Crock of Gold is the perfect blend of literary virtuosity and lighthearted fun.
Author : Joseph Mary Plunkett
Publisher :
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 1913
Category : English literature
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