The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh - ISBN: 9780241339343
Paperback
Transforming verse: tragic masterpieces of the pioneering Anglo-Irish spirit.

The Great Hunger

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  • Paperback

    64 pages

  • Release Date

    26 February 2018

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Summary

Fifty new books at £1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry.

‘I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided …’

By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece ‘The Great Hunger’, some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241339343
ISBN-10:0241339340
Author:Patrick Kavanagh
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:64
Release Date:26 February 2018
Weight:47g
Dimensions:161mm x 111mm x 6mm
Series:Penguin Modern
About The Author

Patrick Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, in 1904. His verse collections included Ploughman and Other Poems (1936), A Soul for Sale and Other Poems (1947) and Come Dance with Kitty Stobling (1960). He also wrote the novel Tarry Flynn (1948) and his autobiography The Green Fool (1938). He died in 1967.

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