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Exploring English Short Stories

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Description for Exploring English Short Stories Paperback. This is Exploring English 1 precisely as you will have remembered it. Read once more, and enjoy! Editor(s): Martin, Augustine. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 214 x 30. Weight in Grams: 468.

Difficult as it may be in understand today, the Exploring English anthology of short stories was revolutionary when first published forty four years ago in 1967.  For the first time the short story was to be taught as part of the English syllabus for the Intermediate Certificate.  For the first time students of English were introduced to the work of Irish writers such as Liam O’Flaherty, Frank O’Connor, Sean O Faolain, Mary Lavin, Brian Friel and Benedict Kiely. 

Exploring English has resonated with countless thousands of Irish students.  For many it provided a gateway to a life time ... Read more

The Exploring English short story anthology is now being republished in an exact facsimile of the original. Times have moved on; many authors who were alive forty years ago are no longer with us but their biographical notes have not been changed. This is the book precisely as you will have remembered it. Read once more, and enjoy!

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Product Details

Publisher
Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780717150410
SKU
V9780717150410
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 3 to 5 working days
Ref
99-99

About Roger Hargreaves
When editing Exploring English, Augustine Martin was teaching English at Mount St Joseph’s in Roscrea.  He was appointed lecturer in English at University College Dublin and later Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature.  He was also editor of Soundings which was reissued to huge popular acclaim in 2010.  He died prematurely in 1995.

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