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About the Author

Born in a Longford workhouse where his father was first teacher and then master, Padraic Colum grew into an important figure in the Irish literary renaissance before immigrating to the United States. Invited by the Fay brothers to join the National Theatre Society, he married the teacher and writer mostrar mais Mary Maguire, with whom he undertook several joint projects. The Colums immigrated to the United States in 1914. Colum kept up a varied production of verse, plays, fiction, criticism, and children's literature, together with active lecturing. His most extended teaching appointment was at Columbia University, where he and his wife offered a joint course in comparative literature. Colum felt that his Roman Catholic and peasant roots gave him a closer tie to the Irish folk than did the Protestant, Anglo-Irish background of many writers of the Irish renaissance. His poetry usually deals with common people and rural landscapes in a forthright manner. Colum was resolutely Irish, and his work for the most part avoids didacticism or sentimental nationalism in favor of straightforward presentation. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Padraic Colum

The King of Ireland's Son (1916) 305 exemplares
Treasury of Irish Folklore (1954) 282 exemplares
Myths of the World (1930) 103 exemplares
The Arabian Nights (1923) 74 exemplares
Legends of Hawaii (1937) 50 exemplares
An Anthology of Irish Verse (1948) 49 exemplares
Great Myths of the World (1930) 36 exemplares
Our friend James Joyce (1958) 35 exemplares
The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes (1919) 30 exemplares
The Flying Swans (1957) 18 exemplares
The Six Who Were Left In A Shoe (1923) 16 exemplares
Wild Earth and Other Poems (1922) 15 exemplares
The Road Round Ireland (1926) 13 exemplares
The Forge in the Forest (1925) 13 exemplares
Poems (1932) 12 exemplares
Gulliver's Travels [adapted] (1962) 11 exemplares
The White Sparrow (1933) 11 exemplares
Three Plays (1963) 10 exemplares
Cross Roads in Ireland (1930) 8 exemplares
Castle Conquer (1923) 7 exemplares
Creatures (1927) 6 exemplares
Selected Plays of Padraic Colum (1986) 5 exemplares
Selected Poems of Padraic Colum (1989) 5 exemplares
The Peep-Show Man (1924) 5 exemplares
Boy in Eirinn (Jack Yeats) (2013) 4 exemplares
The Legend of Saint Columba (1935) 3 exemplares
Arthur Griffith 3 exemplares
The Vegetable Kingdom (1954) 3 exemplares
Mogu the Wanderer 2 exemplares
Images of Departure (1969) 2 exemplares
My Irish Year 2 exemplares
Three Men 1 exemplar
Irish Elegies (1965) 1 exemplar
Studies (2012) 1 exemplar
Old Pastures 1 exemplar
Poems of Samuel Ferguson (1963) — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Wall of China 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Dubliners (1914) — Introdução, algumas edições19,570 exemplares
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales (1812) — Introdução, algumas edições14,194 exemplares
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1832) — Introdução, algumas edições4,173 exemplares
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) — Introdução, algumas edições2,805 exemplares
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (1150) — Introdução, algumas edições1,932 exemplares
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners (1967) — Introdução, algumas edições1,194 exemplares
Exiles (1918) — Introdução, algumas edições617 exemplares
A Dreamer's Tale and Other Stories (1910) — Introdução, algumas edições284 exemplares
Auguste Rodin (1903) — Introdução, algumas edições239 exemplares
The New Junior Classics Volume 03: Myths and Legends (1938) — Contribuidor — 235 exemplares
The New Junior Classics Volume 04: Hero Tales (1938) — Contribuidor — 215 exemplares
The New Junior Classics Volume 02: Stories of Wonder and Magic (1912) — Contribuidor — 200 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1981) — Contribuidor — 193 exemplares
The Young Folks' Shelf of Books, Volume 07: Legends of Long Ago (1900) — Contribuidor — 173 exemplares
The Charwoman's Daughter (1912) — Introdução, algumas edições165 exemplares
Complete Poems (1958) — Introdução, algumas edições118 exemplares
Hibernian Nights (1963) — Introdução, algumas edições80 exemplares
The Collegians (1829) — Introdução, algumas edições79 exemplares
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
The Easter Book of Legends and Stories (1947) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Ulysses in Nighttown (1958) 29 exemplares
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
What We Did on Our Holidays (1969) — Lyricist — 23 exemplares
The Land and People of Ireland (1953) — Introdução — 21 exemplares
Popular Irish Poetry (1995) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
The Golden Wind (1929) — Introdução — 12 exemplares
A James Stephens Reader (1962) — Introdução, algumas edições9 exemplares
Spring World, Awake: Stories, Poems, and Essays (1970) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
All Sails Set (1948) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
New Songs: A Lyric Selection — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 7, March 1977 (1977) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Pastimes of James Joyce — Posfácio — 2 exemplares
The Poems of Jonathan Swiftalgumas edições2 exemplares
The World's Best Stories for Boys and Girls: Second Series (1930) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

a ler (1,191) Alemão (194) antologia (327) Arte e cultura clássicas (935) clássico (743) colecção (187) contos (2,194) contos (221) crianças (243) Dublin (298) e-livro (155) encadernado (147) Fairy Tail (1,538) Fantasia (573) Ficção (3,928) Folclore (557) folktales (182) história (177) ilustrado (162) Irish literature (590) Irlanda (889) Irlandês (609) James Joyce (154) Joyce (166) lido (303) Literatura (1,041) Literatura em alemão (156) Literatura infantojuvenil (204) Literatura inglesa (147) Mistério (202) Mitologia (669) Modernismo (211) own (201) para crianças (296) Poesia (205) por ler (208) Romance (181) Século XIX (175) Século XX (359) terror (380)

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I was really glad to finally get an overview of Norse mythology. The interlude about the Volsungs seems out of place, and I was already somewhat familiar with it, but it was good reading all the same. It's interesting to see how parts of these stories have been used by modern writers in their own way: most obviously Lewis and Tolkien, but I suspect also George R.R. Martin.
 
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judeprufrock | 17 outras críticas | Jul 4, 2023 |
I don’t know much about Greek Mythology. But, hey, Zeus and Hercules and all that stuff has always been SUPER cool when it’s shown up in TV and movies! And then… yaaaaaaawn. I was reading sentences, and realizing that the material in the sentences should have been exciting. There was fighting. There was lots of drama and abrupt life (-no, WORLD-) altering things. Plus, explanations for the heavens and seasons and so on. That should be really interesting. For whatever reason, I couldn’t get along with the author’s writing style. It was easy enough to understand, it just wasn’t easy to enjoy. It wasn’t a terrible book, and I genuinely did like pieces; I’m merely pained by thinking that something SHOULD be so much more fun.… (mais)
 
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Allyoopsi | 6 outras críticas | Jun 22, 2022 |

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Obras
80
Also by
35
Membros
6,196
Popularidade
#3,967
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
52
ISBN
352
Línguas
6
Marcado como favorito
4

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