The Táin

The Táin
Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2002
Genre: Cuchulain (Legendary character)
ISBN: 0192803735

The Táin Bó Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cuailnge. The hero of the tale is Cuchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who resists the invaders single-handed while Ulster's warriors lie sick. Thomas Kinsella presents a complete and living version of the story. His translation is based on the partial texts in two medieval manuscripts, with eleme...

The Love-Tiff (Esprios Classics)

The Love-Tiff (Esprios Classics)
Author: Moliere
Publisher: Blurb
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781006538384

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Molière (1622- 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. He studied at the Jesuit Clermont College, then left to begin a life in the theatre. Thirteen years on the road as an actor helped him to polish his comic abilities, while he also began writing combining Commedia dell'Arte elements with the more refined French comedy. Through the patronage of a few aristocrats including the brother of Louis XIV, he procured a command performance before the King at the Louvre. He was granted the use of the Salle du Petit-Bourbon at the Louvre and the Palais-Royal. He found success among the Parisians with plays such as The Affected Ladies, The School for Husbands and The School for Wives.

The Story of Hong Gildong

The Story of Hong Gildong
Author: Kyun Hŏ
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143107690

Hong Gildong, a brilliant but illegitimate son of a noble government minister, cannot advance in society and embarks on a series of adventures, joining a band of outlaws, vanquishing assassins and monsters, and founding his own kingdom.

Songs of Unreason

Songs of Unreason
Author: Jim Harrison
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2012-12-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 161932038X

One of America's leading novelists and poets, "Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him."-The Sunday Times

Shamrock Tea

Shamrock Tea
Author: Ciaran Carson
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Shamrock Tea is an Irish drug that enables its users to see things not given to ordinary mortals. They can sense colours and sounds more vividly; they can penetrate the surface of paintings; they can cross time. The narrator, his cousin and a strange Belgian friend know that their lives are ruled mysteriously by the great van Eyck painting, The Arnolfini Portrait, and they have travelled in dream like moments through the painting into other times. They discover that each moment is connected to every other. But in the strange world of Shamrock Tea, no story can be straightforward. With a cast of characters that includes the gardener Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book will blow your mind.

I Must Be Living Twice

I Must Be Living Twice
Author: Eileen Myles
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0062389106

"Myles speaks with one of the essential voices in American poetry." —New York Times A collection of new and selected past work from one of America’s most celebrated poets Eileen Myles's poetry and prose are known for their blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral, in which readers can peer into existent places, like the East Village of Myles's iconic Chelsea Girls. But they are also lifted into dreams, through writing that has the vividness and energy of fantasy. I Must Be Living Twice brings selections from the poet’s previous work together with a set of bold new poems, through which Myles continues to refine their sardonic, unapologetic, and fiercely intellectual literary voice. Steeped in the culture of New York City, Myles's stomping grounds and the home of their most well-known work, they provide a wide-open lens into radical life.

Last Night's Fun

Last Night's Fun
Author: Ciaran Carson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1998-03-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780865475311

Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. Last Night's Fun is remarkable for its liveliness, honesty, scholarship, and spontaneous joy; certainly there has never been a book about Irish music like this one, and few books ever written anywhere about the experience of music can compare with it.

The Irish for No

The Irish for No
Author: Ciaran Carson
Publisher: Motorbooks
Total Pages: 63
Release: 1988
Genre: Poetry in English, 1945- - Texts
ISBN: 9781852240752

When Ciaran Carson's first book of poems, The New Estate, was published in 1976, Tom Paulin hailed him as 'a brilliant and formidable talent'. His second collection, The Irish for No, appears after a gap of ten years.