Donn Byrne (1) (1889–1928)
Autor de Messer Marco Polo
Para otros autores llamados Donn Byrne, ver la página de desambiguación.
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Cut down scan of back cover of Penguin No.552; unattributed picture.
Obras de Donn Byrne
The strangers' banquet 2 copias
The Island of Youth 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Best Short Stories of 1915 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1915) — Contribuidor — 23 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Byrne, Bernard (baptismal name)
Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald Patrick (birth name) - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1889-11-20
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1928-06-18
- Lugar de sepultura
- Rathclarin churchyard, near Coolmain Castle, Ireland
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Ireland
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Dublin London, New York
London, England, UK
Brooklyn Heights, New York, USA
Riverside, Connecticut, USA
Coolmain Castle, County Cork, Ireland
Paris, France (mostrar todos 7)
Leipzig, Germany - Educación
- Dublin University
The Sorbonne
University of Leipzig - Ocupaciones
- dictionary editor
novelist
short-story writer
poet
Miembros
Reseñas
Personally, I loved this book. There were stories and names and places I'd never heard of before and a few that I have heard of before. It's a fascinating book full of little bits of knowledge. I think I filled up about six pages worth of notes.
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.
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.
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.… (más)
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.
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 23
- También por
- 5
- Miembros
- 375
- Popularidad
- #64,333
- Valoración
- 3.1
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 114
- Idiomas
- 2
This is a short book, but the author has an amazing talent for description and drew me right into the lives of the wanderers. Blind Raftery was a pure joy to read.