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Going After Cacciato is an anti-war novel written by Tim O'Brien and first published by Delacorte Press in 1978. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [1] O'Brien himself says that "Going After Cacciato is a war novel. However, this is a controversial idea due to the fact that the book is about a soldier going AWOL." [2]
The Reverse of the Medal. The Far Side of the World is the tenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1984. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 . The story from Treason's Harbour has several points resolved, as to the success of Maturin's work identifying the French ...
The Third Policeman. At Swim-Two-Birds is a 1939 novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It is widely considered to be O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction . The novel's title derives from Snám dá Én ( Middle Irish: "The narrow water of the two birds"; Modern ...
The Letter of Marque is the twelfth historical novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1988. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 . Aubrey faces life off the Navy List, as the captain of a letter of marque, finding heart to endure and train yet another ship's crew, but of volunteers ...
215. ISBN. 978-0-297-84019-0. Lantern Slides is a short story collection by Irish author Edna O'Brien and won the 1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. [1] It contains twelve stories, published in 1990 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK and by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US.
The English translation by Justin O'Brien was first published in 1955. Included in the translated version is a preface written by Camus while in Paris in 1955. Here Camus states that "even if one does not believe in God, suicide is not legitimate". [3]
This article is part of a series about The New York Times History 1851–1896 1896–1945 1945–1998 1998–present Online platforms Publications The New York Times The Upshot Other publications The New York Times International Edition International Herald Tribune The New York Times Magazine The New York Times Book Review Play T People Executives and board members A. G. Sulzberger Meredith ...
Brough was born in Paris, and baptised on 23 February 1853 at the Parish Church of St. Peter in Liverpool. [1] She was the daughter of Robert Barnabas Brough, a noted journalist, poet and librettist who died a few days before her eighth birthday, and his wife Elizabeth, née Romer, a cousin of the soprano Emma Romer, and a sister of the singer Ann Romer, wife of her husband's older brother ...