Flann O'Brien

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1967
  • Latest Book:
    August 2013
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Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • At Swim-Two-Birds

    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...

  • O'Brien, Stories and Plays

  • The Dalkey Archive

    Wit, humor, satire, the exact fall of a Dublin syllable, the ear for the local turn, the flight of fancy that can spin into a Dublin joke or a Limerick limerick—all these are his.—The New York Times...

  • The Best of Myles

  • Stories and Plays

  • The Poor Mouth

    The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his...

  • The Third Policeman

    The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensi...

  • The Hard Life

    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...

  • The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman

    "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...



  • The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman and the Brother

    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...

  • The Complete Novels

    Flann O’Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novelsâ€"collected here in one volumeâ€"are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius.

     

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  • Myles away from Dublin

    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 o...

  • Myles Before Myles

    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 ...

  • Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien

    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...

  • Flann O'Brien Reader

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Flann O'Brien has published 15 books.

Flann O'Brien does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien, was published in August 2013.

The first book by Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds, was published in August 1967.

No. Flann O'Brien does not write books in series.
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