Literature: History & Criticism

The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century will appeal to any reader with general or specific interests in Ireland's cultural and literary history through a century which has seen two literary revivals, the Literary Revival of the 1900s, and the 'Northern Revival' of more recent decades.

In the prison of his days teach the free man how to praise - W.H.Auden. A Miscellany for Nelson Mandela on his 70th birthday.

In The Letters of Samuel Beckett readers discover the life and work of a literary giant in his own words.

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world. As much a guide to contemporary life as it is virtuoso work of literary criticism, Ulysses and Us offers revolutionary insights to the scholar and the first-time reader alike.

This new volume of essays provides a critical re-evaluation of Brian Coffey (1905-1995), a leading figure in Ireland’s post-Independence poetic avant garde.

2011 1st Edtion Hardback

This volume follows as closely as possible the chronological order of composition, highlighting autobiographical elements including the young Wilde's conflicting attitudes to Greece and Rome, pagan and Christian, and his fluctuating attraction to Roman Catholicism.

A collection of charming and celebrated writings about cats, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semi-feral creatures on the African farm where she grew up.

Translation of Carl Henning Wijkmark's debate on euthanasia in the form of a symposium. Though the text was written nearly thirty years ago, the play has a terrifyingly modern relevance.

Brings together a unique combination of Wilde’s poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his only novel - to give the essence of his work and thinking.