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    The Long-Winded Lady

    Maeve Brennan

    In these delightful, melancholy prose sketches Maeve Brennan goes in pursuit of the ordinary, taking us on a tour of the cheap hotels, unassuming restaurants, and crowded streets of New…

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    The Springs of Affection

    Maeve Brennan

    In the stories that compose this scintillating collection, Maeve Brennan turns her anatomist's eye to the ugly feelings that teem just beneath the surface of family life - doing so…

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    The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin

    Maeve Brennan

    These masterly stories trace the patterns of love in three middle-class Dublin families, patterns as intricate and various as Irish lace. Extraordinarily good and moving .– Washington Post .

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    The Visitor

    Maeve Brennan

    The tale of Anastasia King who returns to her grandmother’s house in Dublin after six long years away. She has been in Paris comforting her dying mother, who ran away…

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    The Long-winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker

    Maeve Brennan

    The first part of this book reprints Maeve Brennan’s The long-winded lady published by William Morrow & Company in 1969… Our ‘Postscript’ adds nine ‘long-winded lady’ items to Maeve Brennan’s…

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    The Rose Garden: Short Stories

    Maeve Brennan

    This title gathers 20 stories from the glory days of The New Yorker , some of them set in her native Dublin, but mostly in and around her adopted Manhattan…

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    The Visitor

    Maeve Brennan

    A work of fiction - novella set in Dublin.

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    Maeve Brennan: Wit, Style and Tragedy - An Irish Writer in New York

    Angela Bourke

    Born in Dublin in 1917 to politically active parents, Maeve Brennan wrote fashion copy at Harper’s Bazaar until being asked to join the New Yorker . Focusing on migration, memory…

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    The Philip Larkin I Knew

    Maeve Brennan

    As sub-librarian at the University of Hull during Larkin’s tenure there as librarian; and as an intimate friend for 30years, Maeve Brennan was well placed not only to observe Larkin…

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    de Dublin a Nueva York

    Brennan Maeve

    Maeve Brennan is one of the most relevant writers of the 20th century and De Dublin a Nueva York is the gathering of her best literary work. This fictional novel…

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    All Strangers Here: 100 Years of Personal Writing from the Irish Foreign Service

    Eavan Boland,Siobhan Campbell

    This volume comprises a selection of personal, creative and unofficial writing by Irish diplomats and their families. Part of the Department of Foreign Affairs centenary programme, the collection is a…

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