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Literature: History & Criticism
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Pilgrim Soul : W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time€17.99
Marking the centenary of Yeats’s Nobel Prize, a timely guide to the work of Ireland’s national poet and the changing Ireland he lived through.
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Writers and Their Teachers (Hardback)€29.99
By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers.
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Flann O'Brien: Acting Out€40.99
Flann O’Brien: Acting out is the first full-length study to comprehensively address the themes of performance, masking and illusion in the author’s fiction, columns, correspondence and scripts.
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Drámaíocht Na Gaeilge: ón Dara Cogadh Domhanda Ar Aghaidh€20.00
Cad í canóin na ndrámaí Gaeilge? Cad iad na clasaicigh mhóra i ndrámaíocht na Gaeilge? Cé hé nó cé hí an drámadóir is tábhachtaí, is cumasaí, is snoite i saol na Gaeilg? Cad iad na drámaí Gailge ar chóir go mbeidís i mbéal an phobail, ar churaclam na scoileanna agus ar chlár na n-ollscoileanna?
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The Matter of Black Lives : Writing from the New Yorker€18.99
A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more.
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Romance of the Grail : The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth€22.99
The first collection of Joseph Campbell's writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, a central focus of his celebrated scholarship, now in paperback.
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Pessoa : An Experimental Life€22.99
For many thousands of readers Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet is almost a way of life. Ironic, haunting and melancholy, this completely unclassifiable work is the masterpiece of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic writers. Richard Zenith's Pessoa at last allows us to understand this extraordinary figure.
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Ulysses Unbound : A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses (Paperback)€11.99
Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy.
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James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction€11.99
James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the template for the Coming of Age novel, while his collection of short stories, Dubliners, is of perennial interest. His great modern epic, Ulysses, took the city of Dublin for its setting and all human life for its subject, and its publication in 1922 marked the beginning of the modern novel.