Socrates' Defence
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'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account...
Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls
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'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...' In this selection from...
A Pair of Silk Stockings
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'At night, among the reeds on the bayou, Chicot could still hear the woman's wail, mingled now with...
Atheist's Mass
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'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an...
The Art of Life
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In "The Art of Life" Paul Durcan takes us around County Mayo in his "filthy, two-door, bottle-green...
The Eve of St Agnes
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'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse -...
The Nose
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'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so...
The Old Man of the Moon
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'Our passion was so great. Will the Old Man understand and help us once again?' The Old Man of the...
The Reckoning
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'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a...
The Steel Flea
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'He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames, for fear the spirits in...