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The Unfortunate Fursey
By Mervyn Wall
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Description
The forces of evil have launched a determined offensive on the sanctified precincts of Clonmacnoise, and gain a bridgehead in the cell of Brother Fursey. But the hapless monk is so tongue-tied with fright that he cannot utter the necessary words of exorcism. When the other monks discover this, poor Fursey is expelled, and sets forth on the first stage of his travels accompanied by a fantastic procession of cacodemons, hippogriffs, imps, furies, and other dreadful creatures, not to mention the elegant gentleman in black who is their commander-in-chief. Reviewed in the Irish Times as "wildly fantastic, intensely satirical, and wickedly comic" and described by critic E. F. Bleiler as a "landmark book in the history of fantasy", Mervyn Wall's The Unfortunate Fursey remains a classic of modern Irish literature.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
280
Release Date:
2023-03-31
Publication Date:
2023-03-31
Publisher:
LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1783807679
ISBN13:
9781783807673
Weight:
337 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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