num_pages: 320
description: In telling the story of his youth, Maurice O'Sullivan uses a style derived from the folk tales he learned from his grandfather, and sharpened by his own lively imagination. Though he wrote simply for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends--without any thought of a wider audience--O'Sullivan now enjoys a devoted following of readers who appreciate what E.M Forster praised as the "gaiety and magic" of this book.
language: English
title: Twenty Years A-Growing
titlecomplete: Twenty Years A-Growing
genres: Ireland, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Classics, Travel, Irish Literature, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 507
places: An Blascaod Mór, Great Blasket
publisher: Oxford University Press