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    Robert Welch
    Malá kniha írskych mýtov
    Principialny román
    Crosshaven
    The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
    Animal Farm
    1984
    • Crosshaven

      • 22 pages
      • 1 hour of reading

      Básne írskeho básnika, ktorému sa v Írsku dostáva v týchto dňoch značnej pozornosti.

      Crosshaven2007
      3.0
    • The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature

      • 614 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      The literature of Ireland displays an exceptional richness and diversity - whether in Irish or English, by native Irish and Anglo-Irish writers or by outsiders like Edmund Spenser whose works were deeply imbued with the country in which he lived and wrote. In over 2,000 entries, the Companion to Irish Literature surveys the Irish literary landscape across some sixteen centuries, describing its features and landmarks. Entries range from ogam writing, developed in the 4th century, to the fiction, poetry, and drama of the 1990s; and from Cú Chulainn to James Joyce. There are accounts of authors as early as Adomnán, 7th century Abbot of Iona, up to contemporary writers such as Roddy Doyle, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, and Edna OʼBrien. Individual entries are provided for all major works, from Táin Bó Cuailnge - the Ulster saga reflecting the Celtic Iron Age - to Swiftʼs Gulliverʼs Travels, Edgeworthʼs Castle Rackrent, Ó Cadhainʼs Cré na Cille, and Banvilleʼs The Book of Evidence

      The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature1996
      3.9
    • Retells the classic story set in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.

      19841983
      4.3
    • Animal Farm

      • 88 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      The Animal Farm: A fairy Story is the critique of the totalitarian socialist states of the twentieth century, in the form of a fable. Perhaps Orwell's finest creation. It was first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin, and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), he wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he had tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole". *This book contains a biography of the author.

      Animal Farm1980
      4.3