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Flann O'Brien’s Followers (761)
Flann O'Brien
Born
in Strabane, The United Kingdom
October 05, 1911
Died
April 01, 1966
Genre
Influences
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The Third Policeman
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published
1967
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122 editions
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At Swim-Two-Birds
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published
1939
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264 editions
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The Poor Mouth
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published
1941
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39 editions
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The Dalkey Archive
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published
1964
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55 editions
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The Hard Life
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published
1961
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40 editions
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The Complete Novels
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published
2007
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7 editions
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The Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien
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published
2013
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5 editions
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The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: Including The Brother
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published
1976
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12 editions
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Further Cuttings From Cruiskeen Lawn
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published
1976
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6 editions
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At War
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published
1999
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9 editions
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“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
― The Third Policeman
― The Third Policeman
“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
― At Swim-Two-Birds
― At Swim-Two-Birds
“You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?"
"That is about the size of it," said the Sergeant.
I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears came into my eyes and a lump of incommunicable poignancy swelled tragically in my throat. I began to feel intensely every fragment of my equal humanity. The life that was bubbling at the end of my fingers was real and nearly painful in intensity and so was the beauty of my warm face and the loose humanity of my limbs and the racy health of my red rich blood. To leave it all without good reason and to smash the little empire into small fragments was a thing too pitiful even to refuse to think about.”
― The Third Policeman
"That is about the size of it," said the Sergeant.
I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears came into my eyes and a lump of incommunicable poignancy swelled tragically in my throat. I began to feel intensely every fragment of my equal humanity. The life that was bubbling at the end of my fingers was real and nearly painful in intensity and so was the beauty of my warm face and the loose humanity of my limbs and the racy health of my red rich blood. To leave it all without good reason and to smash the little empire into small fragments was a thing too pitiful even to refuse to think about.”
― The Third Policeman
Polls
July 2020 New School Classic Read Poll
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 1945, 351 pages
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, 1961, 355 pages
I, Claudius by Robert Graves, 1934, 468 pages
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter, 1984, 295 pages
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, 1967, 200 pages
The Wreath by Sigrid Undset, 1920, 305 pages
The Street by Ann Petry, 1946, 448 pages
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Challenge: 50 Books: Az's Book Count [From 19th May] | 33 | 246 | Dec 20, 2010 08:47PM | |
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The Seasonal Read...:
Winter Challenge 2010-2011 Completed Tasks (do not delete any posts)
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2589 | 1083 | Feb 28, 2011 09:05PM | |
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Reading with Style:
WI 10-11 RwS Completed Tasks - Winter
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715 | 504 | Mar 01, 2011 09:19AM |
