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PLAYBOY OF WESTERN WORLD by SYNGE, J.M.
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Drama Classics Ser.
John Millington Synge's classic work set in Mayo. A mysterious traveller, Christy Mahon, arrives in the village believing he has killed his father. He is looked upon as a hero by the locals and falls in love with one of them, Pegeen Mike, who agrees to marry him. But when Christy's 'murdered' father app ...Show more
The Aran Islands by J.M. Synge
Category: Travel Literature
'Go to the Aran Islands. Live there as if you were one of the people themselves; express a life that has never found expression.' J.M. Synge did exactly as W.B. Yeats suggested and, revisiting these harsh yet beautiful specks of land off Ireland's west coast over a period of four years, created a litera ...Show more
The Complete Works of J.M. Synge by J. M. Synge
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
The literary and dramatic work of J.M. Synge is most famous for the 'riots' provoked by his 1907 play The Playboy of the Western World and, indeed, this was neither the first nor the last time that Synge's dramas incited passionate disagreements. But, one hundred years on, it's clear that his writings a ...Show more
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