The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction [Import] [Hardcover]

Colm (Ed.) Toibin (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1120 pages
• Publisher: Viking; 2nd prt. edition (1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670854972
• ISBN-13: 978-0670854974
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,748,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Colm Toibin is the author of four previous novels, The South, The Heather Blazing, The Story of the Night, and The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. He lives in Dublin.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 1086 pages of Irish Literature!, July 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (Hardcover)

The Penguin book of Irish Fiction is a fine way to sample a variety of works by Irish writers, ranging from an excerpt of Gullivers Travels by Swift to James Joyce's The Dead. Some short stories are included in their entirety, but most of the novels are excerpted from the originals, which is fine if you just want to sample various writers or decide where to go from here... While planning a trip to Ireland, I found this book to be a good one volume education in Irish Literature. In fact, with 1086 pages of very small print, I doubt I can finish it in time.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Reader in Western Virginia, July 7, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Irish Fiction, The Penguin Book of (Paperback)

This is an excellent introduction to Irish Literature, to be read through or just sampled. The selections are long enough to help the reader to decide where they'd like to start in a large body of literature. The perfect textbook for Modern Irish Literature 110.