The Collegians
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Griffin, Gerald) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Collegians: Or the Colleen Bawn, a Tale of Garryowen In "The Collegians" love and murder may be treated conventionally, but the episodes depending upon theses themes are made vivid, racy, and entertaining. We move through Munster and are shown Munster life and character in such variety that we feel for a while that the story has the spaciousness of the old national novels of England and Spain. Lowry Looby goes with his master "at a sling trot," telling stories and singing snatches of songs, and Myles-na-Coppaleen, in the drawing-room of the castle, shows the mountaineer´s quickness of mind; Mihil O´Connor rides wildly with his faction, and the Munster gentlemen drink deep and come to the duel; the sinister Danny Mann is put beside the grotesque Lowry Looby and his evil idiom mixes with the other´s mellow discourse; manners that have lapsed are mingled with manners that are familiar, and we hear of a lady riding to a gentleman´s door with a whip in one hand and a brace of duelling pistols in the other; we listen to the old fox-hunter hillooing on his death-bed and watch the gentlemen exchanging shots in the dining-room; the peasantry live as they lived before the famine, poor, rack-rented, but merry-hearted and delighting in music and story, and the gentry gallop towards bankruptcy. "The Collegians" is the best of the Irish romantic novels. Gerald Griffin told his brother that it "wrote itself." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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