James Stephens: 42 books

The essential books and short stories by James Stephens:Table Of ContentsThe Crock of GoldHERE ARE LADIESThe Insurrection in DublinIRISH FAIRY TALESMARY, MARY

Ajeno a las dos coordenadas típicas del relato testimonial (estar en el lugar indicado en el momento justo, estar en el peor momento en el lugar equivocado), La insurrección en Dublín es un diario en primera persona que refleja cómo vivió el Alzamiento de Pascua de abril de 1916 la mayor parte...

‘Irish Fairy Tales’ is a collection of stories originally edited by James Stephens, and accompanied by the illustrations of Arthur Rackham. It contains ‘The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill’, ‘The Boyhood of Fionn’, ‘The Birth of Bran’, ‘The Wooing of Becfola’, ‘Oisin’s Mother’,...

"The Insurrection In Dublin" is account of the Easter Rising by the poet and novelist James Stephens, first published in 1916. The event was an attempt by Irish nationalists to insight a full-blown rebellion against British rule with the intention of securing Ireland's independence. It was...

Irish Fairy Tales is a retelling of ten Irish folktales by the Irish author James Stephens. The English illustrator Arthur Rackham provided interior artwork, including numerous black and white illustrations and sixteen color plates all included in this ebook. The stories are set in a wooded, Medieval...

This Golden Deer Classics compilation contains over 500 classic fairy tales. CONTENTS: Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Aleksander Chodźko Fairy Books (Blue, Red, Yellow, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Orange) by Andrew Lang Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen...

This Golden Deer Classics compilation contains over 500 classic fairy tales. CONTENTS: Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Aleksander Chodźko Fairy Books (Blue, Red, Yellow, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Orange) by Andrew Lang Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen...

If any of James Stephens' books might be thought to have need of an Introduction it would be the delightful story that is called Mary, Mary on one side of the Atlantic Ocean and The Charwoman's Daughter on the other. It was written in 1910, when the author was known as the poet of Insurrections and the writer of a few of the mordant studies that belong to a later book, Here Are Ladies.

Stephens’s first (1913) collection of short stories revolves about the often nameless clerks, typists, and office supervisors of middle-class Dublin. The 19 stories include “Women,” “Three Heavy Husbands,” “A Glass of Beer,” “One and One,” “Three Women Who Wept,” “The Triangle,” The Daisies,” “Three Angry People,” “The Threepenny Piece,” and “Brigid.”

We do not know where Becfola came from. Nor do we know for certain where she went to. We do not even know her real name, for the name Becfola, “Dowerless” or “Small-dowered,” was given to her as a nickname. This only is certain, that she disappeared from the world we know of, and that she went to a realm where even conjecture may not follow her.

The Crock of Gold is a unique mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the battle of the sexes all with charm, humour and good grace, rotating around the astonishing story of what happens when Pan shows up in Ireland, what Angus Og does about it, and what becomes of the Daughter of Murrachu who gets caught in between them.

IN the centre of the pine wood called Coilla Doraca there lived not long ago two Philosophers. They were wiser than anything else in the world except the Salmon who lies in the pool of Glyn Cagny into which the nuts of knowledge fall from the hazel bush on its bank. He, of course, is the most profound...