Land - Liam O'Flaherty

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Auteur(s) : Liam O'Flaherty

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/12/2012

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 362

Expédition : 508

Dimensions : 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.9

ISBN : 144820447X

Résumé :

O'Flaherty's thirteenth novel is about the Irish land uprisings during the time of Parnell.Set in Co. Mayo during the early days of the 19th century Land War, this mighty epic of the Irish Land and People tell of the struggles between the British landlords and the Irish tenantry.

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Biographie:

Liam O'Flaherty (also known as Liam ? Flaithearta) was born in 1896 in the small village of Gort na gCapall, on one of the Aran Islands in Galway. In 1908, at the age of twelve, he went to Rockwell College, and then went on to study at Holy Cross and University College, Dublin - he did not attend the first two schools for long.

O'Flaherty initially intended to join the priesthood, but in 1917 he left school to join the Irish Guards, enlisting under the name 'Bill Ganly'. He was injured on the Western Front, and some believe that shell shock may have been responsible for his mental illness, which became apparent when he suffered the first of two mental breakdowns in 1933.

After the war O'Flaherty left Ireland and moved to the United States, where he lived in Hollywood for a short time. He also travelled throughout the United States and Europe, and the letters he wrote during his wanderings were later published. Many of O'Flaherty's works of fiction have common themes of nature and Ireland...

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