Genre :: Ireland (13 books)

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  #4

  Ulysses

  by James Joyce

  (13 Reviews)

  925 Points

  "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

  

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  #30

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  by James Joyce

  (9 Reviews)

  389 Points

  "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."

  

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  #71

  Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable

  by Samuel Beckett

  (3 Reviews)

  247 Points

  "I am in my mother's room."

  

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  #72

  Finnegans Wake

  by James Joyce

  (4 Reviews)

  247 Points

  "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."

  

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  #177

  Dubliners

  by James Joyce

  (7 Reviews)

  112 Points

  "The Sisters - There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.An encounter: It was Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us.Araby: North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet..."

  

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  #279

  Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

  by Roddy Doyle

  (2 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "We were coming down our road. Kevin stopped at a gate and bashed it with a stick. It was Missis Quigley's gate; she was always looking out the window but she never did anything."

  

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  #283

  Angela's Ashes

  by Frank McCourt

  (6 Reviews)

  75 Points

  "My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born."

  

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  #383

  At Swim-Two-Birds

  by Flann O'Brien

  (2 Reviews)

  54 Points

  "Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind my eyes and face assuming a vacant and..."

  

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  #540

  The Death of the Heart

  by Elizabeth Bowen

  (2 Reviews)

  17 Points

  "That mornining's ice, no more than brittle film, had cracked and was now floating in segments."

  

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  #541

  An evil cradling

  by Brian Keenan

  (3 Reviews)

  17 Points

  

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