Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock / The Shadow of a Gunman / The Plow and the Stars

8 best books like Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock / The Shadow of a Gunman / The Plow and the Stars (Seán O'Casey): In a Glass Darkly, Paradise, Borstal Boy, The Tower, The Last September, A Shropshire Lad, Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition, Castle Rackrent

In a Glass Darkly

Author	J. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN	0192839470

This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a 'metaphysical' doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as...

Paradise

Author	Toni Morrison
ISBN	0452280397

"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black...

Borstal Boy

Author	Brendan Behan
ISBN	1567921051

This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed...

The Tower

Author	W.B. Yeats
ISBN	0743247280

The first edition of W. B. Yeats's The Tower appeared in bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 1928. His English publisher printed just 2,000 copies of this slender volume of twenty-one poems, priced at six shillings. The book was immediately embraced by book buyers and critics alike, and it quickly...

The Last September

Author	Elizabeth Bowen
ISBN	0385720149

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.

In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and...

A Shropshire Lad

Author	A.E. Housman
ISBN	0486264688

Few volumes of poetry in the English language have enjoyed as much success with both literary connoisseurs and the general reader as A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, first published in 1896. Scholars and critics have seen in these timeless poems an elegance of taste and perfection of form and feeling...

Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition

Author	Dylan Thomas
ISBN	0811215423

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) prepared this volume in 1952 the author's choice of the ninety poems he felt would best represent his work up to that time and it was published by New Directions in 1953 as The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, shortly after his death. This book was then and remained, for all practical...

Castle Rackrent

Author

Maria Edgeworth

Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from Britain in 1782, Castle Rackrent tells the story of three generations of an estate--owning family as seen through the eyes—and as told in the voice—of their longtime servant, Thady Quirk, recorded and commented on by an anonymous...