Edition |
1st Vintage Books ed. |
Description |
xiii, 701 pages ; 21 cm |
Note |
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1981. |
Contents |
Guests of the nation -- The late Henry Conran -- The bridal night -- The Grand Vizier's daughters -- Songs without words -- The shephers -- The long road to Ummera -- The cheapjack -- The Luceys -- Uprooted -- The mad Lomasneys -- News for the church -- Judas -- The babes in the woods -- The frying-pan -- The miracle -- Don Juan's temptation -- First confession -- The man of the house -- The drunkard -- Christmas morning -- My first protestant -- Legal aid -- The masculine principle -- The sentry -- The lady of the sagas -- Darcy in the land of youth -- The Oedipus complex -- The pretender -- Freedom -- Peasants -- The majesty of the law -- Eternal triangle -- Masculine protest -- The sorcerer's apprentice -- The little mother -- A sense of responsibility -- Counsel for Oedipus -- The old faith -- Unapproved route -- |
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The study of history -- Expectation of life -- The ugly duckling -- Fish for Friday -- A set of variations on a borrowed theme -- The American wife -- The impossible marriage -- The cheat -- The weeping children -- An out-and-out free gift -- The Corkerys -- A story by Maupassant -- A great man -- Androcles and the army -- Public opinion -- Achilles' heel -- The wreath -- The teacher's mass -- The martyr -- Requiem -- An act of charity -- The Mass island -- There is a lone house -- The story teller -- Last Post -- The cornet player who betrayed Ireland -- Ghosts. |
Subject |
Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Ireland. |
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Manners and customs. |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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ISBN |
0394710487 paperback $8.95 |
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