Liam O. Flaherty Knihy

A powerful and classic autobiographical novel. Nine men go Over theTop in mud and rain and darkness, urged on by an Authority invisible and remorseless somewhere behind the lines, to seek a Foe they re destined never to encounter. The men are tough lads of the bombing squad, nine human individuals, living and real persons, a little world of diverse characters merged into a Unit for the purposes of this excursion into No Man s Land. One at a time they die, in terrible and futile ways. Still the bombing squad advances, floundering, towards the Foe, lost, hungry, over-exhausted; dully courageous, vague, stupefied: returning to the Brute As the climax of this tremendous story is reached, the reader is gripped by a universal tragedy which goes beyond even the Great War to that final starkness and terror which only a genius can portray. Liam O Flaherty served as a private in the Irish Guards and was wounded at Passchendaele, and he knew what he is writing about. This is a man s book for all time: or for as long as men shall die together in comradeship, bravely and blindly.

By the author of The Wilderness and The Black Soul. This collection of short stories reveals a range of human emotions in the setting of rural Ireland.

Im Jahr 1845 begann für Irland eine Folge von Katastrophen, die alle gewohnten Entbehrungen übertraf. Durch eine Kartoffelkrankheit sahen sich die Menschen ihres Hauptnahrungsmittels beraubt; die Pachtzinse waren nicht mehr aufzubringen. Die kleinen Pächter standen – der eine früher, der andere später – buchstäblich vor dem Nichts. Die Leute starben an Flecktyphus oder ›einfach‹ an Hunger …

Set in the period of the Great Famine of the 1840s, Famine is the story of three generations of the Kilmartin family. It is a masterly historical novel, rich in language, character, and plot--a panoramic story of passion, tragedy, and resilience.

Ein kräftiger junger Mann liegt mit einer seltsamen Krankheit namens Liebe darnieder. Eine alte Dame muss als Jockey bei einem Pferderennen einspringen. Ein kleiner Junge träumt von seinem ersten Anzug. Das Leben eines Neugeborenen blüht auf, während dasjenige seines Großvaters schwindet. O'Flahertys Erzählungen haben das große Ganze des menschlichen Lebens im Blick genauso wie das unverwechselbare Detail. Zartheit und Heftigkeit, diskretes Pathos und kühler Realismus, skurriler Humor und Mitgefühl mit den Armen und Unterdrückten verbinden sich in O'Flahertys Erzählkunst zu einer unverwechselbar irischen Mischung.

Forty-nine-year-old Mr Gilhooley is living two the one drinking in the pubs of Dublin, the other desperate and lonely, longing for love. A chance encounter with the innocent and yet destructive Nelly starts a chain of compelling, dark and menacing events.This is the underworld of 1920's Dublin. Death, violence, sex, religion and love entwine and weave paths in this visually rich and passionate tragic-comedy.Mr Gilhooley rivalled the fame of Joyce's Ulysses when it was first published, and was reviewed by W.B. Yeats as "a great novel."

Gypo, an ex-policeman, who takes blood money for betraying his friend and comrade, is a force from whom neither friend nor comrade is safe. Set in 1920's Ireland, this story portrays the Dublin underworld and inspired the classic John Ford film.