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James Plunkett

    21. Mai 1920 – 28. Mai 2003

    James Plunkett war ein irischer Schriftsteller, der für seine realistischen Darstellungen des Lebens der Arbeiterklasse in Dublin gefeiert wurde. Seine Werke befassen sich häufig mit Themen wie sozialer Ungerechtigkeit, Armut und menschlicher Widerstandsfähigkeit angesichts von Widrigkeiten. Plunkett fing meisterhaft die authentische Stimme und Atmosphäre der Dubliner Straßen ein und schuf Erzählungen voller fesselnder Charaktere und ergreifender Momente. Sein literarischer Beitrag liegt in seiner ehrlichen und einfühlsamen Perspektive auf das Leben einfacher Leute.

    Farewell Companions
    Collected short stories
    Classic Irish Novels: A Drama in Muslin
    End State
    Stadt der Verlorenen
    Manche, sagt man, sind verdammt
    • End State

      • 400 Seiten
      • 14 Lesestunden

      An ambitious, thrilling manifesto, setting out a new relationship between the individual and the state and how we can get there

      End State2021
      4,3
    • Great Irish Stories of Childhood

      • 271 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden

      This collection looks at the years of innocence, the pains and pleasures of schooldays and the struggles of adolescence in stories by such writers as Seamus Heaney, Roddy Doyle, Flann O'Brien, William Trevor, Bryan MacMahon, Samuel Beckett, Neil Jordan, Sean O'Faolain, Edna O'Brien, Brian Friel, Maeve Binchy, Brendan Behan and many more.

      Great Irish Stories of Childhood1999
    • Introduction to Management

      • 679 Seiten
      • 24 Lesestunden

      The latest look at corporate culture, planning, and all other functions of business as the apply to both large and small companies in the United States and globally.

      Introduction to Management1992
    • "James Plunkett's long-awaited second novel is a haunting evocation of the poignancy and pathos of Irish life between the wars." Back cover comment.

      Farewell Companions1978
    • Manche, sagt man, sind verdammt

      • 472 Seiten
      • 17 Lesestunden

      Set in Dublin during the Lockout of 1913, Strumpet City is a panoramic novel of city life. It embraces a wide range of social milieux, from the miseries of the tenements to the cultivated, bourgeois Bradshaws. It introduces a memorable cast of characters: the main protagonist, Fitz, a model of the hard-working, loyal and abused trade unionist; the isolated, well-meaning and ineffectual Fr O'Connor; the wretched and destitute Rashers Tierney. In the background hovers the enormous shadow of Jim Larkin, Plunkett's real-life hero. Strumpet City's popularity derives from its realism and its naturalistic presentation of traumatic historical events. There are clear heroes and villians. The book is informed by a sense of moral outrage at the treatment of the locked-out trade unionists, the indifference and evasion of the city's clergy and middle class and the squalor and degradation of the tenement slums.

      Manche, sagt man, sind verdammt1972
      4,3