In this book, novelist Colm TóibÃn offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influencesâthe American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose,...
Long Island is Colm TóibÃn's masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The sequel to Colm TóibÃ...
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises , the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material onlin...
In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville , in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high...
In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm TóibÃn takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce - and examines their earliest influences: their fathers.
It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first...
'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.'
Irischer Autor, geb. 1955. - Nach dem Krankheitstod ihres Mannes, der angesehener Lehrer war, muss sich Nora Webster nun in der Enge einer irischen Kleinstadt der 1960er-Jahre alleine mit ihren 4 Kindern durchschlagen - sowohl finanziell als auch gesellsc...
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm TóibÃn comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestraâspectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compellingâ...
Colm TóibÃnâs New York Times bestselling novelâalso an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Pictureâis &acir...
From one of contemporary literatureâs bestselling, critically acclaimed, and beloved authors: a âluminousâ novel (Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review ) about a fiercely compelling young widow...
Leuchtend grüne, aber auch sturmgepeitschte graue Landschaften, malerisch bunte oder melancholische Städte, jahrhundertelange Armut und Wirtschaftsboom - vielfältig sind die Bilder, die vor das innere Auge treten, wenn der Name Irland f&aum...