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Flann O'Brien The Complete Novels by Flann O'Brien
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.83In the five novels by Ireland's greatest comic writer we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered madness of At Swim-Two-Birds to the piercing realism of The Hard Life and... -
The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien Flann O'Brien 9781628971835
Booksplease Price: $27.43An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of the twentieth century, The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien presents an intimate look into the life and thought of... -
Flann O'Brien by Joe Brooker 9780746310816
Booksplease Price: $101.65Flann O'Brien was the best known pen name of Brian O'Nolan one of modern Ireland's most perplexing, subversive and underrated writers. This new study assesses the whole span of O'Nolan's achievement,... -
The Poor Mouth by Flann O'Brien 9781628975765
RRP: $18.06Booksplease Price: $13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628975765Author Flann O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint -
Flann O'Brien & Modernism by Julian Murphet
Booksplease Price: $40.66Flann O'Brien & Modernism brings a much-needed refreshment to the state of scholarship on this increasingly recognised but still widely misunderstood 'second generation' modernist. Rather than... -
At Swim-two-birds by Flann O'Brien
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26Flann O'Brien's innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim-Two-Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble... -
The Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien 9781564782151
Booksplease Price: $16.13The Best of Myles brings together the best of Flann O'Brien's newspaper column "Cruiskeen Lawn," written over a nearly thirty-year period. Covering such subjects as plumbers, the justice system, and... -
The Poor Mouth by Flann O'Brien 9780586087480
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.84The classic satire from the renowned comic and acclaimed author of 'At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien. Flann O'Brien's gloriously wicked satire of the traditional Irish peasant novel, The... -
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien 9781628975772
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628975772Author Flann O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint -
Flann O'Brien by Joe Brooker 9780746310137
Booksplease Price: $27.44Flann O'Brien was the best known pen name of Brian O'Nolan one of modern Ireland's most perplexing, subversive and underrated writers. This new study assesses the whole span of O'Nolan's achievement,... -
Flann O'Brien: Gallows humour by Ruben Borg
Booksplease Price: $70.18The essays collected in this volume draw unprecedented critical attention to the centrality of politics in Flann O'Brien's art. The organising theme of Gallows Humour These innovative analyses... -
Flann O'Brien and the Nonhuman by K Ebury 9781782050018
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $49.01Flann O'Brien and the Nonhuman is the first book to explore in detail the author's interest in the agency, materiality, and potential sentience of environments, animals and machines. At every turn,... -
Myles Before Myles by Flann O'Brien 9781843512646
Booksplease Price: $17.11Myles Before Myles is a wonderfully funny selection of writings from the pen of Brian O'Nolan (aka Flann O'Brien, Myles na Gopaleen, George Knowall). In this fun-filled extravaganza he is, above all,... -
Y Trydydd Plismon by Flann O'Brien 9781917237345
Booksplease Price: $19.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917237345Author Flann O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint -
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien 9781628973884
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $13.87Along with one or two books by James Joyce, Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds is the most famous (and infamous) of Irish novels published in the twentieth century. A wildly comic send-up of Irish... -
The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien by Anthony Cronin 9781848407145
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20First published in 1989 No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien was the first full-length biography of Flann O'Brien. Rich in background, anecdote and social history, it is an... -
Flann O'Brien: Contesting Legacies by Ruben Borg 9781782050766
Booksplease Price: $59.55Employing a wide range of critical perspectives and new comparative contexts, Flann O'Brien: Contesting Legacies breaks new ground in O'Brien scholarship by testing a number of popular commonplaces... -
Flann O'Brien: Problems With Authority by Ruben Borg 9781782052302
Booksplease Price: $58.39With its penchant for dissecting rehearsed attitudes and subverting expectations, Flann O'Brien's writing displays an uncanny knack for comic doubling and self-contradiction. Focusing on the... -
Myles Away from Dublin by Flann O'Brien 9781843512653
Booksplease Price: $17.11Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen) adopted not only a new name (George Knowall) for these rarely seen pieces, but also a new persona. Writing his column 'Bones of Contention' for... -
Flann O'Brien: Acting Out by Paul Fagan 9781782055358
Booksplease Price: $49.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorPaul Fagan is a Senior Scientist at the Department of English and American Studies, Salzburg University... -
Assembling Flann O'Brien by Dr Maebh Long 9781441190208
Booksplease Price: $44.07Winner of the International Flann O'Brien Society Award for Best Book-Length Study 2014Flann O'Brien - also known as Brian O'Nolan or Myles na gCopaleen - is now widely recognised as one of the... -
The Third Policeman (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Flann O'Brien
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.84A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of 'At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien. A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police... -
Rhapsody in Stephen's Green: The Insect Play by Flann O'Brien 9781874675273
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $7.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin, and Menippean Satire by M. Keith Booker 9780815626657
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.35This work applies Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of literary discourse and the concept of ""carnivalisation"" to the work of Flann O'Brien. The author emphasises the political and social implications of... -
The Dalkey Archive (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Flann O'Brien 9780007247196
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.84From the author of the classic novel 'At-Swim-Two-Birds' comes this ingenious tale which follows the mad and absurd ambitions of a scientist determined to destroy the world. Flann... -
Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist by Keith Hopper 9781859184875
Booksplease Price: $39.47Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman, completed in 1940, was initially rejected by his publishers for being 'too fantastic', and only appeared posthumously in 1967. Since then O'Brien has achieved... -
The Other Irish Tradition: A Irish Fiction Anthology by Rob Doyle
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Irish writing, we are told, is currently enjoying a renaissance. Strange, original talents are blossoming, wielding styles and perspectives as variant as the inspirations they bring to bear on their... -
Best of Myles: A Selection from Cruskeen Lawn: Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien 9780007247189
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.36Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and... -
The Absurd in Literature by Neil Cornwell
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $79.86Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on... -
Ireland Through the Looking-glass: Flann O'Brien, Myles Na GCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate by Carol Taaffe
Booksplease Price: $59.55This book investigates how Irish cultural debate informed O'Nolan's early fiction and journalism, in both Irish and English. It offers the first thorough assessment of his work in its Irish context,... -
Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45: Dublin’s Dadaist Tobias William Harris 9781350415911
Booksplease Price: $39.40Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences... -
Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–1945: Dublin’s Dadaist Tobias William Harris 9781350415874
Booksplease Price: $110.49Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences... -
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09In this tightly plotted yet mind-expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed with only an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through people's... -
Game of Throw-ins by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60'Ireland's finest comic creation since Father Ted' Hot PressI was a rugby player with a great future behind me. A 35-year-old father-of-five with an expanding waistline, who was trying to survive the... -
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O'Neill 9780743207140
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35~ The Irish contemporary classic in a beautiful new edition ~ 'Weren't you never out for an easy dip?' he asked . . . 'I don't mean the baths, I mean with a pal. For a lark like.' Out at the Forty... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer 9781472145000
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers William Palmer 9781472144997
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers... -
Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial by Michael Rubenstein 9780268040307
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $29.23In Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial, Michael Rubenstein documents the relationship between Irish modernism and a restricted segment of the material culture of the... -
Killoyle: An Irish Farce by Roger Boylan 9781628976496
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75Roger Boylan is a booze-soaked humorist in the tradition of James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, and Samuel Beckett. Roger Boylan's first novel is about the inhabitants of the Irish town of Killoyle: Milo... -
An Beal Bocht by Myles Na gCopaleen 9781781176436
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.20Widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish-language novels of the 20th century, An Beal Bocht is a classic satire in Irish by one of the century's great writers, Myles na gCopaleen/Flann...