The Celts
10 best books like The Celts (Nora Kershaw Chadwick): History, Endgame, JR, James Joyce, The Pound Era, The Ancient Celts, The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses, A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel, A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans?, Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland
| Author | Elsa Morante |
| ISBN | 1586420046 |
History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events...
| Author | Samuel Beckett |
| ISBN | 0571070671 |
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories, and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is now considered...
| Author | William Gaddis |
| ISBN | 0140187073 |
J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions, that tremendous book which, in the twenty years since its publication, has come to be acknowledged as an American masterpiece. And J R is a book of comparable magnitude, substance, and humor--a rushing, raucous look at money...
| Author | Richard Ellmann |
| ISBN | 0195033817 |
Although several biographers have thrown themselves into the breach since this magisterial book first appeared in 1959, none have come close to matching the late Richard Ellmann's achievement. To be fair, Ellmann does have some distinct advantages. For starters, there's his deep mastery of the...
| Author | Hugh Kenner |
| ISBN | 0520024273 |
"Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era could as well be known as the Kenner era, for there is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the 20th century in England. Author of pervious studies of Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis...
| Author | Barry W. Cunliffe |
| ISBN | 0140254226 |
The archetypal `barbarians from the north', the Celts were feared for their ferocity in battle and admired as skilled craftsmen. For two and half thousand years the Celts have continued to fascinate all who have come into contact with them. THE ANCIENT CELTS presents an absorbing account of the tribes...
| Author | Harry Blamires |
| ISBN | 0415138582 |
Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have take several readings to achieve. The New Bloomsday...
| Author | Steven Weisenburger |
| ISBN | 0820310263 |
This Companion was extremely beneficial in reading Pynchon's novel, especially giving reference to the social context and pop culture allusions that appear on nearly every page. However, I had to often set it aside, only referring back to it every so often since there was so much information that it...
A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans?
| Author | Jonathan Clements |
| ISBN | 0786715995 |
Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade and raid along the coasts of Europe. Their influence extended from Newfoundland to Baghdad, their battles were as far-flung as Africa and the Arctic. But were they great seafarers or desperate...
Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland
| Author | Malachy McCourt |
| ISBN | 0762431814 |
New York Times bestselling author Malachy McCourt offers an authoritative and engrossing one-volume chronicle of Ireland from pre-Christian times to the present, told with Irish flair by the gifted storyteller.
The pages are populated with figures from myth, history, and the present-from...
In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English
This engaging book traces the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C., when nomadic hunter-gatherers appeared in Ireland at the end of the last Ice Age to 1167 A.D., when a Norman invasion brought the country under control of the English crown for the first time. So much of...
