The Penguin book of Irish fiction
By: edited with an introduction by Colm Tóibín
Contributors: Tóibín, Colm, 1955-
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1085
Subjects: English fiction -- Irish authors; Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Other titles: Irish fiction
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: ix; title: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), from Gulliver's Travels
pagenum: 3; title: Laurence Sterne (1713-68), from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent.
pagenum: 40; title: Frances Sheridan (1724-66), from Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
pagenum: 75; title: Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74), from The Vicar of Wakefield
pagenum: 85; title: Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849), from Castle Rackrent
pagenum: 95; title: Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824), from Melmoth the Wanderer
pagenum: 146; title: Lady Morgan (1783-1859), from The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys
pagenum: 161; title: William Carleton (1794-1869), 'Wildgoose Lodge'
pagenum: 172; title: from The Black Prophet
pagenum: 185; title: John Banim (1798-1842), from The Croppy
pagenum: 196; title: Gerald Griffin (1803-40), from The Collegians
pagenum: 203; title: Charles Lever (1806-72), from St Patrick's Eve
pagenum: 217; title: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), from Uncle Silas
pagenum: 229; title: Anthony Trollope (1815-82), from The Kellys and the O'Kellys
pagenum: 239; title: from Phineas Finn
pagenum: 255; title: Rosa Mulholland (1841-1921), 'The Hungry Death'
pagenum: 268; title: Emily Lawless (1845-1913), from Hurrish
pagenum: 283; title: Bram Stoker (1847-1912), from Dracula
pagenum: 288; title: George Moore (1852-1933), from Esther Waters
pagenum: 315; title: 'Home Sickness'
pagenum: 328; title: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), from The Picture of Dorian Gray
pagenum: 336; title: Edith Somerville (1858-1949) and Martin Ross (1862-1915), from The Real Charlotte
pagenum: 346; title: Robert Tressell (1870-1911), from The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
pagenum: 355; title: Katherine Cecil Thurston (1875-1911), from The Fly on the Wheel
pagenum: 361; title: Daniel Corkery (1878-1964), 'Nightfall'
pagenum: 367; title: James Stephens (1882-1950), from The Crock of Gold
pagenum: 371; title: 'A Glass of Beer'
pagenum: 375; title: James Joyce (1882-1941), 'The Dead'
pagenum: 379; title: James Joyce (1882-1941), from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
pagenum: 407; title: James Joyce (1882-1941), from Ulysses
pagenum: 415; title: James Joyce (1882-1941), from Finnegans Wake
pagenum: 453; title: Peadar O'Donnell (1893-1986), from The Knife
pagenum: 459; title: Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984), from Mr. Gilhooley
pagenum: 463; title: 'The Hawk'
pagenum: 467; title: K. Arnold Price (1896-1989), from The New Perspective
pagenum: 470; title: Kate O'Brien (1897-1974), from The Land of Spices
pagenum: 475; title: from The Anteroom
pagenum: 488; title: Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), 'Her Table Spread'
pagenum: 494; title: from The Last September
pagenum: 499; title: Sean O'Faolain (1900-1991), 'A Dead Cert'
pagenum: 509; title: Seosamh Mac Grianna (1901-90), 'On the Empty Shore'
pagenum: 516; title: Francis Stuart (1902-): from Black List, Section H
pagenum: 519; title: Frank O'Connor (1903-66), 'Guests of the Nation'
pagenum: 526; title: Molly Keane (1904-96), from Two Days in Aragon
pagenum: 534; title: Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967), from Tarry Flynn
pagenum: 544; title: Samuel Beckett (1906-89), from Murphy
pagenum: 556; title: 'First Love'
pagenum: 558; title: from Malone Dies
pagenum: 569; title: 'Company'
pagenum: 583; title: Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906-70), 'Floodtide'
pagenum: 598; title: Michael McLaverty (1907-92), from Call My Brother Back
pagenum: 606; title: Bryan MacMahon (1909-98), 'Exile's Return'
pagenum: 610; title: Sam Hanna Bell (1909-90), from December Bride
pagenum: 618; title: Flann O'Brien (1911-66), 'The Martyr's Crown'
pagenum: 622; title: from At Swim-Two-Birds
pagenum: 626; title: from The Third Policeman
pagenum: 639; title: Mary Lavin (1912-96), 'Happiness'
pagenum: 650; title: Maeve Brennan (1917-93), 'The Morning After the Big Fire'
pagenum: 661; title: Iris Murdoch (1919-99), from The Red and the Green
pagenum: 663; title: Benedict Kiely (1919-), 'Homes on the Mountain'
pagenum: 673; title: James Plunkett (1920-), 'The Eagles and the Trumpets'
pagenum: 681; title: Brian Moore (1921-99), from Black Robe
pagenum: 698; title: Val Mulkerns (1925-), 'Memory and Desire'
pagenum: 706; title: Anthony Cronin (1925-), from The Life of Riley
pagenum: 715; title: Aidan Higgins (1927-), from Balcony of Europe
pagenum: 719; title: John Broderick (1927-89), from The Trials of Father Dillingham
pagenum: 728; title: William Trevor (1928-), 'Kathleen's Field'
pagenum: 732; title: Leland Bardwell (1928-), 'The Hairdresser'
pagenum: 745; title: Brian Friel (1929-), 'Foundry House'
pagenum: 749; title: Eugene McCabe (1930-), 'Music at Annahullion'
pagenum: 758; title: Mary Beckett (1930-), 'A Belfast Woman'
pagenum: 767; title: Jennifer Johnston (1930-), from The Captains and the Kings
pagenum: 776; title: Tom Mac Intyre (1931-), 'Left of the Door'
pagenum: 786; title: Edna O'Brien (1932-), from The Country Girls
pagenum: 787; title: Julia O'Faolain (1932-), 'Will You Please Go Now'
pagenum: 794; title: Maurice Leitch (1933-), from Stamping Ground
pagenum: 802; title: John McGahern (1934-), from The Barracks
pagenum: 813; title: 'The Country Funeral'
pagenum: 834; title: Seamus Deane (1940-), from Reading in the Dark
pagenum: 858; title: Mary Leland (1941-), from The Killeen
pagenum: 861; title: Bernard Mac Laverty (1942-), 'Life Drawing'
pagenum: 865; title: Ita Daly (1945-), 'Such Good Friends'
pagenum: 873; title: John Banville (1945-), from Birchwood
pagenum: 881; title: from The Book of Evidence
pagenum: 886; title: Shane Connaughton (1946-), 'Topping'
pagenum: 895; title: Dermot Healy (1947-), from A Goat's Song
pagenum: 906; title: Clare Boylan (1948-), from Holy Pictures
pagenum: 912; title: Neil Jordan (1950-), 'Night in Tunisia'
pagenum: 920; title: Desmond Hogan (1951-), 'Memories of Swinging London'
pagenum: 929; title: Mary Dorcey (1951-), 'A Country Dance'
pagenum: 936; title: Hugo Hamilton (1953-), 'Nazi Christmas'
pagenum: 948; title: Carlo Gebler (1954-), from The Cure
pagenum: 952; title: David Park (1954-), from The Healing
pagenum: 959; title: Sebastian Barry (1955-), from The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
pagenum: 964; title: Patrick McCabe (1955-), from The Butcher Boy
pagenum: 969; title: Aidan Mathews (1956-), 'In the Dark'
pagenum: 978; title: Mary Morrissy (1957-), 'The Cantilever Principle'
pagenum: 986; title: Roddy Doyle (1958-), from The Snapper
pagenum: 991; title: Dermot Bolger (1959-), from The Journey Home
pagenum: 1000; title: Deirdre Madden (1960-), from Remembering Light and Stone
pagenum: 1010; title: Eoin McNamee (1961-), from Resurrection Man
pagenum: 1016; title: Anne Enright (1962-), '(She Owns) Every Thing'
pagenum: 1025; title: Glenn Patterson (1962-), from Burning Your Own
pagenum: 1027; title: Joseph O'Connor (1963-), from Cowboys and Indians
pagenum: 1034; title: Frank Ronan (1963-), 'Slade'
pagenum: 1042; title: Robert McLiam Wilson (1964-), from Eureka Street
pagenum: 1047; title: Colum McCann (1965-), 'Breakfast for Enrique'
pagenum: 1059; title: Emma Donoghue (1969-), 'Going Back'
pagenum: 1065; title: Biographical Notes
pagenum: 1075; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 1083; title: Copyright Acknowledgements
pagenum: 1084