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The lost novel, winner of the 1982 Whitbread Prize.

New life flowering from death, new perspectives arising from suffering, a new peace that comes from being tested to the uttermost. To 17 year old Paul Waterford life is beginning to seem a sour business, full of unsolved problems, unhappiness and general stress. Why did his young sister have to die in an air disaster? Why is his parents' marriage so evidently close to breaking up? Tired of the world as he sees it, Paul retreats into the fantasy of an ideal republic, the magnetic centre of his fantasies. But under the pressure of...

In his introduction to this collection, Frank O'Connor, himself a distinguished short story writer, emphasizes the richness of the short story tradition in Ireland. The stories he has chosen, all written between the end of the last century and the 1950s, illustrate his meaning and demonstrate how the style and approach of these writers changed in response, not only to the demands of a developing aesthetic, but also to the social and political conditions of their day.
The volume represents the finest writers of their time with their best work, revealing the variety of styles and approaches...

The lost classic 'Angry Young Man' novel.

A clash of two temperaments. An artist and an industrialist grow up in the same smoky town and attend the same local school. In adult life each drives fiercely towards success in his own sphere, as much with an eye to outdoing the other as for any other reason. The struggle is watched through the tolerant eye of a non-competitive friend - until that eye becomes markedly less tolerant, the sub-plot becomes the main plot, and surprises pile up.

' A] triumph of mature observation and art.' - "Daily Telegraph"
'A winter's tale of light and laughter.' - "Sunday Times"
'What is especially enjoyable is the rough-edged tenderness and kindness of Mr Wain's concern ... probably his most substantial achievement to date.' - Robert Nye, "Saturday Times Review"
' S]ubstantial and serious ... sustains a vigorous narrative line - he has always been an excellent storyteller.' - "Times Literary Supplement"
' A] love affair between its author and North Wales itself.... It is a novel with its heart in the right place, and it knows...

This volume offers a new introduction which provides a wide-ranging survey of criticism of Macbeth and four new essays. The new essays from Muriel Bradbrook, Malcolm Evans, Graham Holderness and Germaine Greer bring this edition up-to-date with current critical approaches.

The lost classic novel of a young man's rebellion against his father, set against a backdrop of Jazz in 1940s London.

A young man rebels against the stuffy future envisaged for him by his father, an upright Professor of Classics in a 'red-brick' university. He runs away from school at the age of seventeen and becomes a jazz pianist in a low dive club in one of the seamier haunts of London. The year is 1942...

'A classic.' - Susan Hill, author of "The Woman in Black" and "I'm King of the Castle"
'John Wain's best novel in a long time . . . an interesting story . . . stunning.' - "The Observer"
'John Wain's contribution to the gathering army of lone, upset figures is a notable one.' - William Trevor, "Books and Bookmen"
'Harrowing but deeply compassionate . . . marks a new and impressive development in Mr. Wain's writing.' "British Book News"
'This searching novel throws a critical spotlight on the life that the modern world compels us to lead.' - "Encounter"
Arthur Geary, a...

These plays cover one thousand years of the ancient world from the golden age of Athens to 5th century Alexandria. The protagonists are Anaxagoras, Archimedes and Hypatia, scientists, mathematicians, philosophers. All three of them came into conflict with the prevalent views of the time. Anaxagoras maintained that the sun was a big burning rock of the size of the Peleponnesus. He was condemned to death on the charge of impiety. Archimedes, the first example of the efficacy of technology combined with science, built fortifications that could withstand the might of the Roman Army. His popular...