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Irish Fairy Legends by T. Crofton Croker These tales of changelings, pixies, and other supernatural creatures were told to a folklorist who roamed southern Ireland from 1812 to 1816. Recounted in simple but colorful language, the stories feature winsome engravings.
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|  | Dubliners by James Joyce A fine and accessible introduction to the work of one of the 20th century's most influential writers, this collection features 15 tales, including a masterpiece of the short-story genre, "The Dead."
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Irish Verse: An Anthology by Bob Blaisdell Works by more than 60 Irish poets, from 18th century to modern times, include poems by Swift, Goldsmith, Moore; Allingham, Yeats, Joyce; plus verses by lesser-known poets.
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|  | An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
Scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards. The dialogue between young lovers, society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale keeps the action brisk.
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|  | The Mabinogion by Lady Charlotte E. Guest Collection of 12 medieval Welsh stories considered a masterpiece of European literature. Includes Kilhwch and Olwen, one of the earliest Arthurian tales in Welsh; The Dream of Rhonabwy, The Lady of the Fountain, more.
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| Products in Irish Literature, History, Music |  |  |  | "Easter 1916" and Other Poems by William Butler Yeats This compilation of all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) includes "The Second Coming," "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," many more.
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|  | 100 Favorite English and Irish Poems by Clarence C. Strowbridge Compact anthology features many of the best works by 59 poets writing in English, among them Edmund Spenser, Christina Rossetti, John Milton, Robert Burns, and William Blake.
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| |  | A Book of Irish Verse by W. B. Yeats Features 100 poems from Irish poets of the 18th and 19th centuries — Goldsmith, Sheridan, Moore, Wilde — plus important lesser-known writers: James Clarence Mangan, Sir Samuel Ferguson, Aubrey de Vere, many more.
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|  | The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde Four of the English writer's finest works, among them "The Sphinx Without a Secret," "The Model Millionaire," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," and the title story, plus 6 "Poems in Prose."
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|  | Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs Great folklorist's selection of the finest legendary and folk material from Welsh, Scottish, and Irish sources. 26 medieval and modern stories in all. 46 illustrations.
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|  | Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs Twenty tales embodying the humor and heroism of Celtic folklore have been compiled into one volume. The stories are lavishly illustrated by the pen-and-ink drawings of John D. Batten. 38 drawings.
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|  | Cuchulain of Muirthemne by Lady Gregory The loves, superhuman exploits, and premature death of the greatest of ancient Ireland's legendary Knights of the Red Branch. Preface by W. B. Yeats.
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|  | Dubliners by James Joyce A fine and accessible introduction to the work of one of the 20th century's most influential writers, this collection features 15 tales, including a masterpiece of the short-story genre, "The Dead."
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|  | Dubliners by James Joyce A fine and accessible introduction to the work of one of the 20th-century's most influential writers, this collection features 15 tales, including a masterpiece of the short-story genre, "The Dead."
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|  | Early Poems by William Butler Yeats Rich selection of 134 poems published between 1889 and 1914: "Lake Isle of Innisfree," "When You Are Old," "Down by the Salley Gardens," many more. Note. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.
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|  | Great Irish Short Stories by Evan Bates Features 13 captivating tales, from the early Irish prose fiction of Maria Edgeworth and William Carleton to the 20th-century works of William Butler Yeats, James Stephens, James Joyce, Seumas O'Kelly, and Liam O'Flaherty.
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|  | Hero-Tales of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtin This extraordinary volume features 24 authentic tales of Fin MacCool. Each exciting story centers around superhuman heroes battling dragons and giants, outwitting sorcerers, and even overcoming death itself.
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|  | An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde Scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards. The dialogue between young lovers, society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale keeps the action brisk.
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|  | The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Wilde's witty and buoyant comedy of manners, filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams, reprinted from an authoritative British edition. Considered Wilde's most perfect work.
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|  | The Irish Fairy Book by Alfred Perceval Graves, George Denham 43 enchanting poems and tales by William Butler Yeats, Joseph Campbell, Lady Jane Wilde, Jeremiah Curtin, Douglas Hyde, and other distinguished writers.
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|  | Irish Fairy Legends by T. Crofton Croker These tales of changelings, pixies, and other supernatural creatures were told to a folklorist who roamed southern Ireland from 1812 to 1816. Recounted in simple but colorful language, the stories feature winsome engravings.
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|  | Irish Fairy Tales by Philip Smith Eight charming tales, newly reset in large, easy-to-read type: "Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary," "Conal and Donal and Taig," "The Old Hag's Long Leather Bag," "The Field of Boliauns," and more.
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|  | Irish Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World by Jeremiah Curtin Thirty beguiling stories of sprites and specters told to a Smithsonian ethnographer in 19th-century Ireland. "The Ghost of Sneem," "Tom Moore and the Seal Woman," "The Blood-Drawing Ghost," many more.
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|  | Irish Verse: An Anthology by Bob Blaisdell Works by more than 60 Irish poets, from 18th century to modern times, include poems by Swift, Goldsmith, Moore; Allingham, Yeats, Joyce; plus verses by lesser-known poets.
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