Literary Fiction

2011 1st Edition Hardback

A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses. Ulysses Unbound provides a comprehensive and comprehensible guide to James Joyce's masterpiece.

Flann O’Brien (Brian O’Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen) adopted not only a new name (George Knowall) for these rarely seen pieces published in the Nationalist. He takes on the character of a quizzical, enquiring humorist who might be found in a respectable pub in Carlow seeing through humbug and cant.

Athlone-born writer John Broderick was an astringent commentator on the rapidly shifting mores of Ireland from the 1950s to the 1980s. This is a fascinating and eclectic selection of his book reviews and other journalism.

Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s.

Designed / suitable for A & AS Level, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

This is the perfect overview of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day.

'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window'

This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys's brief, beautiful masterpiece. Edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith