Frank O'Connor
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The definitive collection from an Irish literary icon, "one of the masters of the short story" (Newsweek).
In the words of W. B. Yeats, Frank O'Connor "did for Ireland what Chekhov did for Russia." Anne Tyler, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, described his tales as "encapsulated universes." This indispensable volume contains the best of his short fiction, from "Guests of the Nation" (adapted into an Obie Award–winning...
In the words of W. B. Yeats, Frank O'Connor "did for Ireland what Chekhov did for Russia." Anne Tyler, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, described his tales as "encapsulated universes." This indispensable volume contains the best of his short fiction, from "Guests of the Nation" (adapted into an Obie Award–winning...
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Frank O'Connor's acclaimed autobiography, now in one volume. When Frank O'Connor was born, his parents - Minnie O'Connor, a former maid raised in an orphanage, and Michael O'Donovan, a veteran of the Boer War and the drummer in a local brass-and-reed band - lived above a sweet-and-tobacco shop in Cork, Ireland. The young family soon moved, however, to a two-room cottage at the top of Blarney Street, a lane that originates, as O'Connor so vividly describes...
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This book leads you from occupational first aid to cardiac first responder and on to advanced first aid without any difficulty. There are over 165 photographs and illustrations and 27 algorithms to guide you through the skill sets. This book is an ideal reference book for the home, the educational field, or as a course manual. It is in essence three books in one. If you are serious about becoming a community responder or an advanced first aider, this...
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A bawdy and boisterous poem of Ireland, translated by one of its most distinguished literary sons. As a teacher and translator of Irish verse, Frank O'Connor brought to the world's attention many fine poems from his native land, few as enduring - and none as controversial - as Brian Merriman's The Midnight Court. An eighteenth-century masterpiece widely recognized as the greatest comic poem in Irish literature, The Midnight Court is a hilarious and...
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Frank O'Connor, considerado por autores como William B. Yeats, Julian Barnes o Richard Ford como el Chéjov irlandés, analiza las realidades dispares que conforman aquel país, católico y timorato, y, al mismo tiempo, cuna de algunos de los mejores autores de la literatura universal. En Huéspedes de la nación y otros relatos, O'Connor nos presenta soldados de bandos opuestos, niños que cargan con la culpa de la religión y la moral, familias...
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Bellrock cove is a busy seaside resort at the mouth of the River Shannon. Its also home to an Elite Coastguard Special Operations unit. Primarily their job is search and rescue, but a busy waterway brings many challenges and smuggling is one that regularly puts their detection skills to the test. Prior to a major boating event, a quantity of heroin is found at a quiet beach north of the town which leads to a series of shootouts and chases on both...
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Death in Dublin: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution is a fascinating biography of Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early twentieth century Irish struggle for independence, Michael Collins (1890-1922). Written by famed Irish novelist and short-story writer Frank O'Connor, and first published in 1937, the book covers the period of Collins's life from the Easter Rising in 1916 to his death during the Irish...
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An all-new digital single-part of the New York Times bestselling series based on the blockbuster Xbox® games! The military-grade artificial intelligence known as Iona has only one week to live. After that, the UNSC will legally terminate her seven-year existence in order to stave off the threat of the data corruption phenomenon known as "rampancy, " a condition that will eventually take hold of her functionality and persona, endangering all those...
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