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Books for Courses 2015 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP IRISH STUDIES books for courses 2015 Examination copies can be ordered at: www.penguin.com/examcopyorder IRISH KEVIN BIRMINGHAM STUDIES THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses 2015 “A brilliant study.”—The New Yorker. “[This] new book Contents Ulysses braids eight or nine good stories into one about the longmighty censorship strand.”— fightThe over New James York Joyce’sTimes. HISTORY & MEMOIR 3 See Fiction & Literature, page 6 ANTHOLOGIES & MYTHOLOGY 4 FICTION & LITERATURE 4 IRISH AMERICA IN HISTORY 11 & LITERATURE SEBASTIAN BARRY COLLEGE FACULTY 12 THE TEMPORARY GENTLEMAN “One of the best writers in the English language.... EXAMINATION & DESK COPY POLICY 13 INFORMATION SERVICE (CFIS) prose...are powerful canvases of the human spirit.” —[Barry’s]The Washington soul-wrenching Post. narratives and incantatory Click on the 13-digit ISBN for more See Fiction & Literature, page 4 information on any title. To order examination copies of any of the titles listed in this catalog, visit: UALA ONNOR www.penguin.com/examcopyorder N O’C MISS EMILY “A triumph of a novel.”—Robert Olen Butler. “T For personal service, adoption Dickinson crosses class, national, and religious lines to reach assistance, and complimentary out to her Irish maid Ada with compassion, empathy,his fictionalized and hu- examination copies, please sign manity....Eloquent prose.”—Dr. Paraic Finnerty, University of up for our College Faculty Infor- Portsmouth, author of Emily Dickinson’s Shakespeare. mation Service at: See Fiction & Literature, page 7 www.penguin.com/facinfo JAMES R. BARRETT THE IRISH WAY Becoming American in the Multiethnic City PENGUIN HISTORY OF AMERICAN LIFE SERIES “An excellent, bottom-up survey of the Irish experience over the past two centuries....A superior ethnic study that will have value for both scholars and general readers.”—Booklist. See History & Memoir, page 3 W. B. YEATS PENGUIN WHEN YOU ARE OLD PUBLISHING GROUP Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales Academic Services Edited with an Introduction by Rob Doggett 375 Hudson Street New York, NY 10014 Includes such celebrated poems as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” www.penguin.com/academic imaginative retellings of Irish fairytales and critical writings. and “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” as well as Yeats’s See Fiction & Literature, page 10 HISTORY & MEMOIR LIFE OF ST. COLUMBA THE PORTABLE EDMUND BURKE and AdomnánTranslated with of Ionaan Introduction by EdmundEdited with Burke an Introduction by Isaac Kramnick ARTHURJon Lellenberg, CONAN Daniel DOYLE Stashower, Richard Sharpe Penguin Classics • 624 pp. • 978-0-14-026760-0 • $20.00 A Life Chris in Letters Foley A richly detailed portrait of religious life in An annotated collection of the Irish-Scottish the 6th century, illuminating the history of - the early church in Ireland and Scotland. Line THE ANCIENT CELTS respondence. drawings, maps, family trees. BarryDiscusses Cunliffe the disparity between the tradition- Penguinauthor’s • 720 previously pp. • 978-0-14-311433-8 unpublished • $18.00private cor Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-044462-9 • $18.00 al and contemporary information on the Celts and offers new insight into the true identity of Classics and Signet Classics. See www.penguin.com/ Also of interest: Conan Doyle’s stories in Penguin NEW! these ancient peoples. Illustrations. academic Penguin • 360 pp. • 978-0-14-025422-8 • $23.00 THE IRISH WAY: Becoming AmericanJames R. Barrett in the Multiethnic City IRELAND SINCE 1939 Penguin History of American Life Series MODERN IRELAND 1600–1972 TheHenry Persistence Patterson of Conflict “Richly detailed...a very absorbing work of R.“Anti-romantic F. Foster and realistic. An elegantly “Engrossing.”—Roy Foster, Financial Times. social history.”—The Wall Street Journal. “An written assessment of the current consensus “Original insight and a comprehensive synthe- excellent, bottom-up survey of the Irish expe- on problematic questions in Irish history.” sis of historical research.”—The Irish Times. rience over the past two centuries....A supe- Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-1-84488-104-8 • $24.00 rior ethnic study that will have value for both Penguin • 704 pp. • 978-0-14-013250-2 • $20.00 scholars and general readers.”—Booklist. —Shaun O’Connell. NEW! Penguin • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-312280-7 • $18.00 THE HISTORY AND PHILOMENA: A Mother, Her Son, TOPOGRAPHYGerald of Wales OF IRELAND andMartin a Fifty-Year Sixsmith search THE BURNING OF Translated with an Introduction Foreword by Dame Judi Dench BRIDGETAngela Bourke CLEARY and Notes by John O’Meara “A searingly poignant account of forced adop- “A perceptive study.”—The New Yorker. “A Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-044423-0 • $15.00 tion and its consequences.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred). “Heartbreaking...a story that need- century Ireland that is also a scholarly analy- ed to be told.”—The Independent (UK). sisriveting of culture, account politics, of a horrific religion, murder and inmythol 19th-- MICK: The Real Michael Collins Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-312680-5 • $17.00 ogy.”—Kirkus Reviews. Peter“A triumph; Hart the narrative is detached, but Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-100202-6 • $16.00 sympathetic. Collins is seen in the round, with his weak points coolly dissected and THE GREAT HUNGER IrelandCecil Woodham-Smith 1845–1849 NEW WORLDS, LOST WORLDS the context of the place and the time.”—Tom TheSusan Rule Brigden of the Tudors, 1485–1603 Garvin,his undoubted Irish Book organizational Review. 16 pp. abilities b/w photos. put in Kee. Illustrations, map. Penguin History of Britain, Volume V Penguin • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-303854-2 • $20.00 Penguin“A masterpiece • 528 pp. • of 978-0-14-014515-1 the historian’s •art.”—Robert $18.00 “A splendid piece of scholarship....Covers not only England but Ireland, Scotland, and Wales NEW! as well.”—Library Journal. “Triumphantly suc- THE PENGUIN HISTORICAL cessful.”—Ralph Houlbrooke, Univ. of Reading, ATLASJohn Haywood OF THE VIKINGS THE FUTURE OF THE CATHOLIC The Times Literary Supplement. Maps and il- Penguin • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-051328-8 • $22.00 CHURCHGarry Wills WITH POPE FRANCIS lustrations throughout. “A lively exercise in church history—history Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-200125-7 • $19.00 intended to orient us in the here and now.”— THE GREEN FLAG Chicago Tribune. “An informed look at the Robert Kee Catholic Church and the challenges [Pope A PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY of Irish nationalism—The Most Distressful Francis] faces.”—The Seattle Times. INTOEdmund THE Burke SUBLIME AND Country,All three Thevolumes Bold Fenianof Kee’s Men definitive, and Ourselves history Viking • 288 pp. • 978-0-525-42696-7 • $27.95 BEAUTIFUL and Other Alone. “Industry, insight, and massive re- Pre-Revolutionary Writings search.”—The New York Times. Penguin • 896 pp. • 978-0-14-029165-0 • $22.00 EXAMINATION COPY ORDERS Edited with an Introduction $3.00 for books priced under $20.00 and Notes by David Womersley 50% off books priced at or above $20.00 Penguin Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-043625-9 • $18.00 www.penguin.com/examcopyorders TO ORDER EXAMINATION COPIES: www.penguin.com/examcopyorder IRISH STUDIES | 3 ANTHOLOGIES FICTION & LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY THE TÁIN ANNIE DUNNE AnonymousTranslated with an Introduction Sebastian Barry by Ciaran Carson A “brilliant and altogether engaging new “Annie’s passionate observations andThe shifting New translation” (Los Angeles Times) of the Old Yorkmoods—rendered Times. in dense prose that’s close Irish epic, Táin Bó Cúailnge, the 8th-century Penguinto poetry—fuel • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-200287-2 this fine novel.”— • $15.00 tale of the legendary warrior Cú Chulainn. A FREE Reading Guide is available at www.penguin.com/guides THE AGE OF BEDE as a storyteller and a highly skilled poet, THE WHEREABOUTS D.Translated H. Farmer, by J. F. editor Webb and D. H. Farmer “Outstanding....[Carson’s] impressive gifts, OF ENEAS MCNULTY Includes The Voyage of St. Brendan, the fabulous urgency of the Celtic Iron Age.” Life of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots —Professorand wizard ofRobert language Welch, combine Univ. of toUlster. recreate of Wearmouth and Jarrow, and EddiusBede’s the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-045530-4 • $17.00 “From the first sentences we know we are in Life of Wilfrid. Street Journal Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-044727-9 • $15.00 NEW! singular force, grace, and beauty.”—The Times Stephanus’s (London). “Reflects on Irish history with Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-028018-0 • $16.00 THE TEMPORARY GENTLEMAN A FREE Reading Guide is available at MODERN IRISH SHORT STORIES Sebastian“One of the bestBarry writers in the English lan- www.penguin.com/guides BenPreface Forkner, by Anthony editor Burgess CONTRIBUTORS: Moore, Somerville, Ross, and incantatory prose...are powerful canvases guage....[Barry’s] soul-wrenching narratives of the human spirit.”—The Washington Post. SCARLET FEATHER Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-312712-3 • $16.00 Maeve“The dialogue Binchy crackles with wit and authentic Kavanagh,Yeats, Synge, Boyle, Corkery, Beckett, O’Kelly, McLaverty,Stephens, Joyce, O’Flaherty, Bowen, O’Faolain, O’Connor, ON CANAAN’S SIDE Irish style.…It takes a huge amount of talent, “The greatest writer of prose in the English good story, and Maeve Binchy has it all.”—The McCabe,MacMahon, McGahern. Edna BiographicalO’Brien, Lavin, sketches. Kiely, Clevelandinsight, and Plain compassion Dealer. to create a ‘simple’ PenguinPlunkett, • 576 Higgins, pp. • 978-0-14-024699-5 Trevor, Flann • $22.00 O’Brien, tolanguage...[This restore with languagenovel] fitsthat seamlesslywhich has beeninto Signet • 560 pp. • 978-0-451-20377-9 • $7.99 takenBarry’s away unique by andtime.”— expandingThe Daily vision, Beast seeking ‘Must Also of interest: Light a Penny Candle Quentins Nights of Rain and Stars EARLY IRISH MYTHS AND SAGAS 978-0-451-22264-0, single parenthood, betrayal, unexpected acts 978-0-451-20990-0, JeffreyTranslated Gantz, by the editor editor ofReads.’ compassion, “Richly detailed, death too often early...and cinematic....War, race rela- 978-0-451-21446-1 The fourteen myths and tales collected in this volume represent the foremost written repos- life.”—The Philadelphia Enquirer.
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