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The Martyrdom of Maev and Other Irish Stories
Harold Frederic
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Paperback. Gathers for the first time all of the Irish work Harold Frederic completed in his lifetime. The Martyrdom of Maev and Other Irish Stories brings together the four sixteenth-century stories that Frederic finished and published in magazines in 1895-96, and two of his stories set in the west of Ireland of the second-half of the nineteenth century. Editor(s): Morgan, Professor Jack. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
Harold Frederic was for a long time known primarily as a writer of New York regional fiction and historical novels. His most outstanding and influential novel, The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) represents the first extended narrative in US literature of Irish-Catholic entry into American life. In 1995, a year short of that novel’s centenary, Joyce Carol Oates wrote: “WHAT a wonderful novel is The Damnation of Theron Ware.” Though raised in a German-American, Methodist environment in the Mohawk Valley of New York state, Frederic became intrigued with Ireland’s people, politics, and history when post-Famine Irish began arriving in his ... Read more
Harold Frederic was for a long time known primarily as a writer of New York regional fiction and historical novels. His most outstanding and influential novel, The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) represents the first extended narrative in US literature of Irish-Catholic entry into American life. In 1995, a year short of that novel’s centenary, Joyce Carol Oates wrote: “WHAT a wonderful novel is The Damnation of Theron Ware.” Though raised in a German-American, Methodist environment in the Mohawk Valley of New York state, Frederic became intrigued with Ireland’s people, politics, and history when post-Famine Irish began arriving in his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780813227818
SKU
V9780813227818
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About Harold Frederic
Jack Morgan is emeritus professor of English at University of Missouri-Rolla, USA and author of New World Irish: Notes on One Hundred Years of Lives and Letters in American Culture.
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