The Aran Islands
$35.86
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
15 June 1992
Summary
In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy and his other major dramas.
Yet this book is much more than a stage in the evolution of Synge the dramatist. As Tim Robinson explains in his introduction, “If Ireland is intriguing as …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140184327 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140184325 |
| Author: | J.M. Synge, Tim Robinson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 1992 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
J.M. Synge
Tim Robinson (External Editor, Introducer)
A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson studied maths at Cambridge and then worked for many years as a visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, among other places. In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands and commenced a multi-decade project of mapping and writing about Aran and Connemara. He is the author of the two-volume Stones of Aran and the Connemara trilogy, each published to great acclaim. He died in 2020.
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