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Lightning Source Inc. 03/01/2000. 307 pgs. Dermot Healy, Irish novelist and poet, writes about his memories of Irish village life in the 1950s and '60s. The book includes the hilarious diary he kept in code as a young lad. Originally published at $17.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Oxford Univ Pr. 06/01/2003. 225 pgs. Originally published at $14.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Yale Univ Pr. 07/01/2000. 604 pgs. Frazier's biography of the minor (and mediocre at best) novelist and poet George Moore concentrates more on his flamboyant life than on his works. Moore, a self-inventing literary celebrity, was an Irishman who loved to talk and was in love with what he saw as his own talent as a writer. His most celebrated work was ESTHER WATERS (1894), about a servant girl who gets pregnant and then marries a man who gambles on the horses. Originally published at $48.00 You save 98% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 06/01/1991. Irish eccentrics populate this tale told by a melancholy man whose search for his missing mother mirrors Ireland's own troubled past. Originally published at $9.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Dover Pubns. 01/01/1997. 92 pgs. The famous letter Oscar Wilde sent from Reading Gaol, describing the events that led to his arrest and imprisonment. Wilde, one of the most famous men of his day as a result of his literary and theatrical successes, had been publicly accused of sodomy in 1895 by the Marquess of Queensbury, who was indignant over Wilde's friendship with his son, Lord Alfred Douglas. Encouraged by Douglas, Wilde sued Queensbury for libel and lost, and was subsequently tried and convicted on vice charges. Originally published at $2.00 You save 41% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 09/01/2003. Reprint. 352 pgs. Booker Prizewinning Irish writer Roddy Doyle writes about his parents, using their own words, memories, and anecdotes to illuminate modest Dublin lives in the second half of the 20th century. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 02/01/1995. Illustrated. 271 pgs. After Gertrude Stein's "lost generation" left Paris, the Beats moved in, bringing James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsburg, and others together in a loose expatriate federation with outsider writers from Europe. This book chronicles the history of the milieu, focusing largely on the role black writers--and the hundreds of other African-Americans who fled to Paris to escape American racism--played at the time. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Consortium Book Sales & Dist. 04/01/1997. 297 pgs. A college professor copes not only with her husband's infidelity, her own affair with an abusive colleague, the troubled lives of her students, and the frustrations of an academic career, but with the ghost of her Irish grandfather who wants her to write his biography. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Newstar Pr. 04/01/1998. 179 pgs. A novelization of Brian Gilbert's 1997 film about the famous English playwright and wit. As flamboyant as he was brilliant, Wilde was at once a scandal and a delight to Victorian Britain, until he was imprisoned on vice charges in 1895. One of the greatest stylists in the English language, his epigrams ("Each man kills the thing he loves") are still in circulation today. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Dufour Editions. 12/01/2000. 128 pgs. This short (just over 100 pages) biography of satirist Jonathan Swift offers insight into his poetry while providing information on the political context of his verse. Originally published at $19.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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