Beside The Fire
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Reference, Fiction & Literature, Classics, Health & Well Being, Self Help
| Author: | Douglas Hyde | ISBN: | 1230000022094 |
| Publisher: | AppsPublisher | Publication: | October 3, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Douglas Hyde |
| ISBN: | 1230000022094 |
| Publisher: | AppsPublisher |
| Publication: | October 3, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Beside the Fire
by Douglas Hyde
A scholarly collection of Irish folk stories.
"IRISH and Scotch Gaelic folk-stories are, as a living form of literature, by this time pretty nearly a thing of the past. They have been trampled in the common ruin under the feet of the Zeitgeist, happily not before a large harvest has been reaped in Scotland, but, unfortunately, before anything worth mentioning has been done in Ireland to gather in the crop which grew luxuriantly a few years ago. Until quite recently there existed in our midst millions of men and women who, when their day's work was over, sought and found mental recreation in a domain to which few indeed of us who read books are permitted to enter..."
Beside the Fire
by Douglas Hyde
A scholarly collection of Irish folk stories.
"IRISH and Scotch Gaelic folk-stories are, as a living form of literature, by this time pretty nearly a thing of the past. They have been trampled in the common ruin under the feet of the Zeitgeist, happily not before a large harvest has been reaped in Scotland, but, unfortunately, before anything worth mentioning has been done in Ireland to gather in the crop which grew luxuriantly a few years ago. Until quite recently there existed in our midst millions of men and women who, when their day's work was over, sought and found mental recreation in a domain to which few indeed of us who read books are permitted to enter..."
