Donn Byrne (1) (1889–1928)
Auteur van Messer Marco Polo
Voor andere auteurs genaamd Donn Byrne, zie de verduidelijkingspagina.
Over de Auteur
Fotografie: Cut down scan of back cover of Penguin No.552; unattributed picture.
Werken van Donn Byrne
The strangers' banquet 2 exemplaren
The Island of Youth 1 exemplaar
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The Best Short Stories of 1915 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1915) — Medewerker — 23 exemplaren
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Byrne, Bernard (baptismal name)
Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald Patrick (birth name) - Geboortedatum
- 1889-11-20
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1928-06-18
- Graflocatie
- Rathclarin churchyard, near Coolmain Castle, Ireland
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Ireland
- Geboorteplaats
- New York, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Dublin London, New York
London, England, UK
Brooklyn Heights, New York, USA
Riverside, Connecticut, USA
Coolmain Castle, County Cork, Ireland
Paris, France (toon alle 7)
Leipzig, Germany - Opleiding
- Dublin University
The Sorbonne
University of Leipzig - Beroepen
- dictionary editor
novelist
short-story writer
poet
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Besprekingen
I have read one of Byrne's books with pleasure (Messer Marco Polo) so I got this one, but as far as I recall, I have never read it. The title story is about a Norman-Irish family whose family banshee (not really a "shee" in the sense of a fairy, it seems, but the ghost of a women rescued by one of the ancestors of the clan) keens for every man of the house who has been worthy of the chivalry of his ancestor, but now a black sheep of the family has died in New York, and his old mother is troubled that the banshee has not keened for him.… (meer)
Early Pulitzer Prize winner. Odd little novel, which presents the life of Marco Polo as a story told by an Irish bard. The Polo material has more to do with Coleridge's poem than history and creates a romance between Marco Polo and Kubla Khan's daughter. Does not stand up well.
This is an interesting story of an itinerant harpist in 17th century Ireland, and his meeting with a Spanish woman left in compromising circumstances, with whom he falls in love. Who rescues who in the end is left for the reader to decide. It is filled with atmospheric details of Irish culture and life of that time. Any Eirophile will enjoy it, as did I!
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 23
- Ook door
- 5
- Leden
- 375
- Populariteit
- #64,333
- Waardering
- 3.0
- Besprekingen
- 8
- ISBNs
- 114
- Talen
- 2
The one downside of this book is that it partially assumes that the reader knows exactly what and where it's talking about. At some point your eyes start to just see the words instead of actually reading them.
Overall, perfectly delightful.