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Farewell Spain / Kate O'Brien; illustrated with drawings and an introduction by Mary O'Neill.

By: O'Brien, Kate, 1897-1974 [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Virago modern classic: Publisher: London : Virago Press, 2006Copyright date: ©1937Description: xxi, 229 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781844084029 (paperback); 1844084027 (paperback).Subject(s): O'Brien, Kate, 1897-1974 | Spain -- Description and travel | Spain -- History -- Personal narratives -- Civil War, 1936-1939DDC classification: 914.60481
Contents:
Adiós, Turismo -- Peevishness -- La Montana -- Romanesque and neolithic -- Sword of Pelayo an bones of Saint James -- The barber of Salamanca -- Santa Teresa -- No pasarán -- Sermon in kitchen salt -- Blondes and fountains -- Mainly personal -- Arriba, Espana!
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST

'A fuller appreciation of modern literature and a greater understanding of twentieth century Ireland' IRISH TIMES

This distinctly personal elegy was written during the early days of the Spanish Civil War by a writer whose future was indelibly marked by a year of travelling in a unique and changing country. A series of reminiscences, impressions and vivid insights, Kate O'Brien's thoughtful journey offers something unique at every stage, and captures perfectly the spirit of a lost place and the experience of travel and memory.

Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1937.

Adiós, Turismo -- Peevishness -- La Montana -- Romanesque and neolithic -- Sword of Pelayo an bones of Saint James -- The barber of Salamanca -- Santa Teresa -- No pasarán -- Sermon in kitchen salt -- Blondes and fountains -- Mainly personal -- Arriba, Espana!

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) lived in London and also in Spain, where she developed a passionate and enduring love of Spanish literature and culture. One of the twentieth century's greatest novelists, her fiction broke new ground in Irish writing by focusing on the prosperous Catholic bourgeoisie and by giving central importance to women's struggle for selfhood in a rigidly sex-stereotyped society.