Flann O'Brien

• Aug-2013
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This riotous collection at last gathers together an expansive selection of Flann O'Brien's shorter fiction in a single volume, as well as O'Brien's last and unfinished novel, Slattery's Sago Saga. Also included are new translations of sever...

• Sep-2011
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Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen) adopted not only a new name (George Knowall) for these rarely seen pieces, but also a new persona. Writing his column 'Bones of Contention' for the Nationalist and Leinster Times, he took on the ch...

• Sep-2011
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Myles Before Myles is a wonderfully funny selection of writings from the pen of Brian O'Nolan (aka Flann O'Brien, Myles na Gopaleen, George Knowall). In this fun-filled extravaganza he is, above all, an entertainer, a 'gas man'. Like much of O'Nolan'...

• Jan-2008
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Flann O'Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novels -- collected here in one volume -- are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius.

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• Mar-2005
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"Along with Joyce and Beckett, [Flann O'Brien] constitutes our trinity of great Irish writers. And who is funnier?" - Edna O'Brien The cream of Flann O'Brien's comic tour-de-force, the Keats and Chapman stories began in O'Brien's column in the Iris...

• Mar-2005
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First published as a column in THE IRISH TIMES, the hilarious escapades of Keats and Chapman (based on the Romantic poet and the translator of Homer respectively) that comprise this volume illuminate the extraordinary talent of the Irish modernist Fl...

• Nov-2003
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Two orphaned boys, Manus and Finbarr, descend into the house of the disputatious Mr. Collopy. This is a tale of growing up in the midst of eccentricity: of Mr. Collopy's mysterious humanitarian work on behalf of women; of his progressive-sounding (an...

• Mar-1999
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One man wants to publish, so another must perish, in this darkly witty philosophical novel by "a spectacularly gifted comic writer" (Newsweek).The Third Policeman follows a narrator who is obsessed with the work of a scientist and philosopher named d...

• Apr-1996
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"The funniest book by Flann O'Brien. . . . Unhappiness is the comic goldmine from which he extracts The Poor Mouth's raw material." -- The Millions Growing up in Western Ireland, Bonaparte O'Coonassa is introduced from birth to the...

• Feb-1991
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• Apr-1983
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The "brilliant, morosely inventive comic turns devoted to . . . the literary life, the Gaelic Revival, civil service bureaucracy, booze and its discontents." -- The Observer For more than twenty years, famous Irish novelist Flann O...

• Oct-1977
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A fantastical caper -- and the final novel -- from the acclaimed twentieth-century Irish writer praised as being imbued "with the true comic spirit" by James Joyce. No one would think that the end of the world would begin in the small town of Dalk...

• Aug-1977
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• Aug-1967
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Flann O'Brien's innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim-Two-Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense published in Pengui...