A Treasury of Irish Literature
(Barnes & Noble Omnibus Leatherbound Classics)

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Ireland's celebrated poetic legacy is represented by more than 200 poems from twenty-five of the nation's most distinguished poets, including Thomas Moore, James Clarence Mangan, Samuel Ferguson, Thomas Osborne Davis, Aubrey de Vere, Katharine Tynan-Hinkson, William Allingham, Lionel Johnson, John Millington Synge, and William Butler Yeats.

In addition, this volume includes a representative selection of fiction by Maria Edgeworth, George Moore, William Carleton, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, and Oscar Wilde, as well as the full text of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

A Treasury of Irish Literature is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and a ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for every home library.

Maria Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish gentry-woman, born in Oxfordshire and later resettling in County Longford. She eventually took over the management of her father's estate in Ireland and dedicated herself to writing novels that encouraged the kind treatment of Irish tenants and the poor by their landlords.