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With the wild geese

With the wild geese

Lawless, Emily

Paperback

General Military History

ISBN10: 9353800455
ISBN13: 9789353800451
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Across the Irish Sea and into Europe, the Wild Geese fly again. Emily Lawless brings the world of the wild geese Irish soldiers into sharp, humane focus, where service abroad is both escape and sentence. Ireland does not let go. First published at the height of Victorian literary fiction, With the Wild Geese is an Irish historical novel of irish military exile, shaped by questions of loyalty and patriotism and by the hard bargains demanded by war and faith. Lawless writes with the sweep and moral pressure readers associate with Walter Scott style novels, yet with a modern clarity of feeling: private grief set against public duty, and the pull between family, country, and regiment. Set in early modern Ireland and carried into an Ireland and Europe setting beyond its shores, it stands as an unabridged classic novel of displacement and belonging. A touchstone in an irish classics collection, this book matters for the way it reframes the legend of the Wild Geese as lived experience, not mere romance, and for its place in the tradition of women shaping Irish narrative history. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For students of Irish literature, it offers a vital angle on memory and nationhood; for book club classic fiction and collectors, a rich, atmospheric return to a defining era. For any shelf that endures.

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