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The Complete Novels: Available Copies

Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.88

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2007. Hardcover. Takes you to a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search for methods of 'diluting' water, and characters play truant while novelists sleep; a world where spiteful fairies wreak havoc and heroes from legend blunder into suburban sitting-rooms. Num Pages: 778 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 45. Weight in Grams: 844. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Flann OBrien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novelscollected here in one volumeare a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius. OBriens masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds, is an exuberant literary send-up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth century. The novels narrator is writing a novel about another man writing a novel, in a Celtic knot of interlocking stories. The riotous cast of characters includes figures stolen from Gaelic legends, along with assorted students, fairies, ordinary Dubliners, and cowboys, some of whom try to break free of their authors control and destroy him. The narrator of The Third Policeman, who has forgotten his name, is a student of philosophy who has committed murder and wanders into a surreal hell where he encounters such oddities as the ghost of his victim, three policeman who experiment with space and time, and his own soul (who is named Joe). The Poor Mouth, a bleakly hilarious portrait of peasants in a village dominated by pigs, potatoes, and endless rain, is a giddy parody aimed at those who would romanticize Gaelic culture. A naive young orphan narrates the deadpan farce The Hard Life, and The Dalkey Archive is an outrageous satiric fantasy featuring a mad scientist who uses relativity to age his whiskey, a policeman who believes men can turn into bicycles, and an elderly, bar-tending James Joyce. With a new Introduction by Keith Donohue (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) 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. O'Brien's masterpiece, "At Swim-Two-Birds, "is an exuberant literary send-up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth century. The novel's narrator is writing a novel about another man writing a novel, in a Celtic knot of interlocking stories. The riotous cast of characters includes figures "stolen" from Gaelic legends, along with assorted students, fairies, ordinary Dubliners, and cowboys, some of whom try to break free of their author's control and destroy him. The narrator of "The Third Policeman," who has forgotten his name, is a student of philosophy who has committed murder and wanders into a surreal hell where he encounters such oddities as the ghost of his victim, three policeman who experiment with space and time, and his own soul (who is named "Joe"). "The Poor Mouth," a bleakly hilarious portrait of peasants in a village dominated by pigs, potatoes, and endless rain, is a giddy parody aimed at those who would romanticize Gaelic culture. A naive young orphan narrates the deadpan farce "The Hard Life," and "The Dalkey Archive "is an outrageous satiric fantasy featuring a mad scientist who uses relativity to age his whiskey, a policeman who believes men can turn into bicycles, and an elderly, bar-tending James Joyce. With a new Introduction by Keith Donohue Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

2007. Hardcover. Takes you to a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search for methods of 'diluting' water, and characters play truant while novelists sleep; a world where spiteful fairies wreak havoc and heroes from legend blunder into suburban sitting-rooms. Num Pages: 778 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 45. Weight in Grams: 844. . . . .

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Text is clean. Cover and dust jacket show only limited shelfwear. States First included in Everyman's Library 2008.; Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series; Vol. 309; 8.1 X 5.5 X 1.8 inches; 824 pages

Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf, New York & London & Toronto 2007. Clothbound hardcover with gilded text and borders along the spine, with a somewhat thumbed dust jacket. (33) 787 (3) pgs. Text in English. The book is in good condition.

No. 309) Smaller, thick book, red cloth, gilt lettering and border very bright on spine with black background, 787 pages. DJ beneath mylar, colorfully designed with photo in background on front, praise on back from Joyce, Burgess, and Graham Greene. Gold cloth bookmark. DJ and book, both As New.

Octavo. Pp. 787. Contains: At Swim-Two Birds; The Third Policeman; The Poor Mouth; The Hard Life; The Dalkey Archive. Fine/ fine.

778 pages. 6.54x4.53x0.79 inches. In Stock.

little wear and tear.

Unread book in perfect condition.

New in new jacket. 1st Edition.

pp. 778

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