Two Lovely Beasts and Other Stories, 2024 Liam O'Flaherty, The Devin-Adair Company, 1950, First Edition, Dust Jacket Under Mylar Cover

Two Lovely Beasts and Other Stories, Liam O'Flaherty, The Devin-Adair Company, 1950, First Edition, Dust Jacket Under Mylar Cover
With Illustrations by John H. De Pol

Green dust jacket with image of a man next to thatched roof cabin. Cracked and aged. Under protective mylar cover. Includes a post card from the publisher asking for feedback on the book. Beige cloth cover with large green text on front cover and on spine. Inside. Clean. No writing. Binding tight. See pictures for more evidence of condition.

***DUST JACKET UNDER MYLAR COVER***

Liam O'Flaherty has been described as "a poet in prose, who chose the short story as a medium" and as someone who "probably has more faults than any of the other outstanding Irish writers of short stories." The faults are clear: an inclination to slide into melodrama and sentimentality, a proclivity to humanize his animal subjects and either to beastialize or idealize his humans, and stylistic uneasiness. It is equally clear why he should have been described as a poet. Most of his stories are set against the backdrop of the harshness of the natural world and present an impassioned picture of humans and animals imbued with violent and elemental passions and struggling for survival.

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