Author: Charles Robert MaturinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Wild Irish Boy
Author: Charles Robert MaturinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Wild Irish Boy ... By the Author of Montorio
Author: Charles Robert MaturinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Wild Irish Boy
Author: Charles Robert MaturinPublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Wild Irish Boy, Works of Charles Robert Maturin, Vol. 2
Author: Charles Robert MaturinPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304846865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
The Wild Irish Boy (1808) was Charles Robert Maturin's second novel. Set in Ireland and England, the story follows the adventures of Ormsby Bethel, a young Irishman of uncertain ancestry, as he navigates through the temptations of high life, the intrigues of swindlers, gamblers, and fast women, and his own uncertainties about his place in the societies of both countries. Combining features of the silver fork novel, coming-of-age story, and to some degree (in scenes of Irish life) the national novel, The Wild Irish Boy is an entertaining tale full of unexpected twists and turns, extravagant scenes of fashionable excess, misguided and dangerous passions, and long-held secrets with dire consequences: riches and ruin, both moral and financial. Among the colorful characters is the too-fascinating Lady Montrevor, cultured, ingenious, and enigmatic, who adds a dimension of excitement and intrigue that contributes to making The Wild Irish Boy a novel rich with conflicting social and moral viewpoints.
Wild Colonial Boy
Author: Dan DochertyPublisher: Austin Macauley
ISBN: 9781528991957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This autobiographical novel narrates the journey of Dan Docherty, a young Glasgow law graduate and karate black belt, who left his traditional Catholic family in 1975 to serve in the notoriously corrupt Royal Hong Kong Police. In Hong Kong, he learned Chinese language intensively, then drill, musketry and law. A famous Tai Chi master accepted him as a disciple and trained him to become an international full contact champion. In this book we'll have a few beers with colourful characters like Big Don and Mountie Dave. We'll visit exotic locales--Manila, Macao, Singapore... We'll witness Dan in full contact competition and in street fight action. As they say in the Hong Kong Police, "If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined."
The Wild Irish Boy
Author: Charles Robert MaturinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Wild Irish Rose
Author: Rhys BowenPublisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250808065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen, now writing in partnership with her daughter, Clare Broyles, transports and enthralls readers through the incomparable Molly Murphy Sullivan. Wild Irish Rose is the next novel in this beloved mystery series, a cause for celebration for readers and critics alike. New York, 1907: Now that she’s no longer a private detective—at least not officially—Molly Murphy Sullivan is looking forward to a time of settled tranquility with friends and family. Back in New York, where her own story began, Molly decides to accompany some friends to Ellis Island to help distribute clothing to those in need. This journey quickly stirs up memories for Molly. When you’re far from home and see people from your country, every face looks like a family member. That evening Molly’s policeman husband, Daniel, is late returning home. He comes with a tale to tell: there was a murder on Ellis Island that day, and the main suspect is the spitting image of Molly. The circumstances are eerily similar to when Molly herself arrived on Ellis Island, and she can’t help but feel a sense of fate. Molly was meant to be there that day so that she can clear this woman’s name.
At Swim, Two Boys
Author: Jamie O'NeillPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743222946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Two young men, Jim, the naive, scholarly son of a Dublin shopkeeper, and Doyler, a rough working boy, struggle with issues of political, religious, and sexual identity in the year leading up to the Easter uprising of 1916.
True History of the Kelly Gang
Author: Peter CareyPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307368653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
SOONTO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The international bestseller, Booker Prize winner, and winner of the 2001 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. Out of 19th century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations: Ned Kelly, the son of poor Irish immigrants, viewed by the authorities as a thief (especially of horses) and, as a cold-blooded killer. To the people, though, he was a patriot hounded unfairly by rich English landlords and their stooges. In the end, Kelly and his so-called gang (his younger brother and two friends) led a massive police manhunt on a wild goose chase that lasted twenty months, in which Ned’s talents as a bushman were augmented by bank robberies and the support of nearly everyone not in a uniform. His one demand – for which he would have surrendered himself was his jailed mother’s freedom. Executed by hanging more than a century ago, speaking as if from the grave, Kelly still resonates as the most potent legend in the land down under.
The Wild Colonial Boy
Author: James HynesPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312204426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A tense calm that pervades over Northern Ireland is about to be broken by Jimmy Coogan, an IRA veteran gone renegade. As he plans to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership, two unsuspecting young Americans are drawn in to the unforgiving labyrinth of modern terrorism.