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1	The third policeman more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist Originally submitted and rejected for publication in 1940, this brilliant absurdist novel by Brian O'Nolan (writing as Flann O'Brien) was not published until 1967, a year after the author's death. Parts of it appeared in his 1964 novel, THE DALKEY ARCHIVE. The nameless, one-legged narrator and another man, John Divney, plot to kill their neighbor ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.10! \| first editions \| SVS
2	At Swim-Two-Birds more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist Flann O'Brien's brilliantly inventive and witty novel satires many things, including Irish literature and folklore, the nature of narrative, and Modernism itself--of which his novel is, incidentally, a fine example. This comic masterpiece features a young, confused student narrator who lives with his uncle in Dublin and is writing a novel whose ... see all copies from $2.48! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Flann O'Brien: The Complete Novels more books like this by Flann O'Brien, Keith Donohue (Introduction by) add to wishlist (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Flann O'Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novels-collected here in one volume-are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius. O'Brien's masterpiece, "At Swim-Two-Birds, "is an exuberant literary send-up and one of the funniest ... see all copies from $12.25! new only from $15.20! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The best of Myles: a selection from Cruiskeen Lawn more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist A collection of the best pieces from the first five years of Flann O'Brien's "Cruiskeen Lawn" column, the column he wrote for "The Irish Times" from 1940-66 under the name of Myles na Gopaleen. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.37! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Best of Myles more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist A compilation of O'Brien's comic newspaper columns in the Irish Times, which he wrote under the name Myles na Gopaleen. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.15! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Dalkey Archive more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist Considered by the author to be almost a work of science fiction, the book includes among its "characters" St Augustine, James Joyce and a man who is in danger of turning into a bicycle. There is also the first published portrait of the mad scientist, who was later to achieve fame as de Selby. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Further Cuttings more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist -- Paperback original. -- First U.S. edition. British publication by Hart-Davis, McGibbon Ltd ('76). -- A companion to The Best of Myles, Further Cuttings culls more scathing selections from "Cruiskeen Lawn", Flann O'Brien's column in the Irish Times written under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen. -- This volume covers the years 1947-1957 and finds ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.64! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Poor Mouth (an Beal Bocht): A Bad Story about the Hard Life more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist O'Brien's comic novel satirizes the "plain folk" of Ireland in the story of Bonaparte O'Coonassa, brought up on potatoes and mutton in a cabin in the west of Ireland. see all copies from $3.50! new only from $8.91! \| first editions \| SVS
9	At War more books like this by Flann O'Brien, Irish Times add to wishlist The Irish satirist Brian O'Nolan (1911-66) was known as Flann O'Brien when he wrote his hilarious novels (most famously, AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS) and Myles na Gopaleen when he wrote his newspaper columns for the Irish Times. Here is a chronological selection of the latter, written during World War II. His topics range from the serious to the nutty, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| SVS
10	The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: Including the Brother more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist "Along with Joyce and Beckett, [Flann O'Brien] constitutes our trinity of great Irish writers. And who is funnier?" - Edna O'Brien The cream of Flann O'Brien's comic tour-de-force, the Keats and Chapman stories began in O'Brien's column in the "Irish Times," He called them "studies in literary pathology" -- monstrously tall tales that explore the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.89! \| first editions
11	O'Brien, Stories and Plays more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $2.10! first editions
12	The poor mouth more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist O'Brien's comic novel satirizes the "plain folk" of Ireland in the story of Bonaparte O'Coonassa, brought up on potatoes and mutton in a cabin in the west of Ireland. see all copies from $2.70! first editions
13	The poor mouth = An béal bocht : a bad story about the hard life more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $4.49! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
14	Flann O'Brien Reader more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $8.12! first editions
15	The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: And, the Brother more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! new only from $51.42! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Stories and plays more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $16.95! first editions
17 view cover	The Complete Novels by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist In the five novels by Ireland's greatest comic writer, we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered madness of "At Swim-Two-Birds" to the piercing realism of "The Hard Life" and the surreal logic of "The Third Policeman". This is a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search for methods of 'diluting' ... see all copies from $21.45! new only from $21.45!
18	Myles before Myles : a selection of the earlier writings of Brian O'Nolan by Flann O'Brien, John Wyse Jackson add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! first editions
19 view cover	The Hard Life more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist Flann O'Brien, one of the masters of Irish comic fiction, sets this farcical novel in turn-of-the-century Dublin--the same milieu in which Joyce DUBLINERS takes place. Finbarr and his older brother are orphans raised by the alcoholic Mr. Collopy who, after he scandalizes the Pope on a trip to Rome, meets a bizarre end. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.51! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist From the author of "The Poor Mouth" and "The Third Policeman", comes this novel about how two orphaned boys come to live in the household of the disputatious Mr. Collopy. While he is engaged in humanitarian work on behalf of women, the boys grow up in the odour of good whiskey and bad cooking. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	Flann O'Brien at war : Myles na gCopaleen, 1940-1945 more books like this by Flann O'Brien, John Wyse Jackson add to wishlist This is a collection of writings from the Irish satirist Flann O'Brien, edited from more than 3000 columns which appeared daily in the "Irish Times" under the pseudonym Myles na gCopaleen. Where previous collections are mere compilations, this collection of wartime columns treats the famous Irishman Myles na gCopaleen and his hectoring associates ... see all copies from $22.43!
22	Swim-Two-Birds by Flann; Hersant O'Brien, Patrick add to wishlist see all copies from $68.50! new only from $68.50!
23 view cover	An Beal Bocht / The Poor Mouth more books like this by Myles N Copaleen, Myles Na Gcopaleen, Flann O'Brien add to wishlist A classic satire in Irish by one of the century's great writers, Myles na gCopleen, also known as Flann O'Brien. see all copies from $55.95! new only from $55.95!
24 view cover	Myles away from Dublin : being a selection from the column written for The Nationalist and Leinster times, Carlow, under the name of George Knowall more books like this by Flann O'Brien, Martin Green add to wishlist In writing his column "Bones of Contention" for "The Nationalist and Leinster Times", the author takes on the character of George Knowall, the country cousin of Myles of Dublin. This book contains a variety of pieces from this column, and is by the same author as "The Third Policeman". see all copies from $4.94! first editions
25	The hair of the dogma : a further selection from "Cruiskeen lawn" more books like this by Flann O'Brien add to wishlist This is a companion volume to "The Best of Myles" and "Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn", and covers the Myles na Gopaleen columns for the "Irish Times", written between 1947 and 1957. It casts a humorous eye over subjects such as a Dublin man's relationship with his wife and his pint. see all copies from $2.53! first editions

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