Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192803735
Category : Cuchulain (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The Táin Bó Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cuailnge. The hero of the tale is Cuchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who resists the invaders single-handed while Ulster's warriors lie sick. Thomas Kinsella presents a complete and living version of the story. His translation is based on the partial texts in two medieval manuscripts, with eleme...
The Táin
Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192803735
Category : Cuchulain (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The Táin Bó Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cuailnge. The hero of the tale is Cuchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who resists the invaders single-handed while Ulster's warriors lie sick. Thomas Kinsella presents a complete and living version of the story. His translation is based on the partial texts in two medieval manuscripts, with eleme...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192803735
Category : Cuchulain (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The Táin Bó Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cuailnge. The hero of the tale is Cuchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who resists the invaders single-handed while Ulster's warriors lie sick. Thomas Kinsella presents a complete and living version of the story. His translation is based on the partial texts in two medieval manuscripts, with eleme...
The Sowers of the Thunder
Author: Robert Ervin Howard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937986264
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937986264
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The Story of Hong Gildong
Author: Kyun Hŏ
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 0143107690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Hong Gildong, a brilliant but illegitimate son of a noble government minister, cannot advance in society and embarks on a series of adventures, joining a band of outlaws, vanquishing assassins and monsters, and founding his own kingdom.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 0143107690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Hong Gildong, a brilliant but illegitimate son of a noble government minister, cannot advance in society and embarks on a series of adventures, joining a band of outlaws, vanquishing assassins and monsters, and founding his own kingdom.
Songs of Unreason
Author: Jim Harrison
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 161932038X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
One of America's leading novelists and poets, "Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him."-The Sunday Times
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 161932038X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
One of America's leading novelists and poets, "Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him."-The Sunday Times
Shamrock Tea
Author: Ciaran Carson
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Shamrock Tea is an Irish drug that enables its users to see things not given to ordinary mortals. They can sense colours and sounds more vividly; they can penetrate the surface of paintings; they can cross time. The narrator, his cousin and a strange Belgian friend know that their lives are ruled mysteriously by the great van Eyck painting, The Arnolfini Portrait, and they have travelled in dream like moments through the painting into other times. They discover that each moment is connected to every other. But in the strange world of Shamrock Tea, no story can be straightforward. With a cast of characters that includes the gardener Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book will blow your mind.
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Shamrock Tea is an Irish drug that enables its users to see things not given to ordinary mortals. They can sense colours and sounds more vividly; they can penetrate the surface of paintings; they can cross time. The narrator, his cousin and a strange Belgian friend know that their lives are ruled mysteriously by the great van Eyck painting, The Arnolfini Portrait, and they have travelled in dream like moments through the painting into other times. They discover that each moment is connected to every other. But in the strange world of Shamrock Tea, no story can be straightforward. With a cast of characters that includes the gardener Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book will blow your mind.
I Must Be Living Twice
Author: Eileen Myles
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062389106
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
"Myles speaks with one of the essential voices in American poetry." —New York Times A collection of new and selected past work from one of America’s most celebrated poets Eileen Myles's poetry and prose are known for their blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral, in which readers can peer into existent places, like the East Village of Myles's iconic Chelsea Girls. But they are also lifted into dreams, through writing that has the vividness and energy of fantasy. I Must Be Living Twice brings selections from the poet’s previous work together with a set of bold new poems, through which Myles continues to refine their sardonic, unapologetic, and fiercely intellectual literary voice. Steeped in the culture of New York City, Myles's stomping grounds and the home of their most well-known work, they provide a wide-open lens into radical life.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062389106
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
"Myles speaks with one of the essential voices in American poetry." —New York Times A collection of new and selected past work from one of America’s most celebrated poets Eileen Myles's poetry and prose are known for their blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral, in which readers can peer into existent places, like the East Village of Myles's iconic Chelsea Girls. But they are also lifted into dreams, through writing that has the vividness and energy of fantasy. I Must Be Living Twice brings selections from the poet’s previous work together with a set of bold new poems, through which Myles continues to refine their sardonic, unapologetic, and fiercely intellectual literary voice. Steeped in the culture of New York City, Myles's stomping grounds and the home of their most well-known work, they provide a wide-open lens into radical life.
Samson Agonistes
Author: John Milton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Last Night's Fun
Author: Ciaran Carson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780865475311
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. Last Night's Fun is remarkable for its liveliness, honesty, scholarship, and spontaneous joy; certainly there has never been a book about Irish music like this one, and few books ever written anywhere about the experience of music can compare with it.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780865475311
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. Last Night's Fun is remarkable for its liveliness, honesty, scholarship, and spontaneous joy; certainly there has never been a book about Irish music like this one, and few books ever written anywhere about the experience of music can compare with it.
The Irish for No
Author: Ciaran Carson
Publisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 9781852240752
Category : Poetry in English, 1945- - Texts
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
When Ciaran Carson's first book of poems, The New Estate, was published in 1976, Tom Paulin hailed him as 'a brilliant and formidable talent'. His second collection, The Irish for No, appears after a gap of ten years.
Publisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 9781852240752
Category : Poetry in English, 1945- - Texts
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
When Ciaran Carson's first book of poems, The New Estate, was published in 1976, Tom Paulin hailed him as 'a brilliant and formidable talent'. His second collection, The Irish for No, appears after a gap of ten years.
The New Estate
Author: Ciaran Carson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description