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The partnership of one of Ireland's best-known authors, Peter Somerville-Large, and well-known photographer, Tom Kelly, proves successful in Legendary Ireland. A collection of magnificent photographs of Irish landscape, art, architecture, and people, accompanied by lucid descriptions and historical significance, this book will surely delight lovers of Ireland, folklore enthusiasts, and those who love the art of photography alike.

There is a degree of bliss too intense for elation. This little-known novella from one of the masters of the form is so unusual for Joseph Conrad's work in several respects, although not in its exotic maritime setting or its even more exotic prose—it is unusual in that it is one of his very few works to feature a woman as a leading character, and to take the form of a romance. Still, it's a Conradian romance: a sweeping saga set in the Indian Ocean basin, against a turbulent background o...