Product Description: Blending fiction, history, and classical Greek mythology, this debut novel demonstrates that the wisdom of the ancients is central to the modern search for personal and universal truths. When the ghost of Archimedes, the Greek mathematician, breaks the silence of the night, a lone figure of the modern era listens with rapt attention and is pulled into an adventure of discovery and exploration...read more

Product Description: Three of Padraic Fallon's brilliant radio plays from the 1950s, a time that is now recognized as the medium's golden age are reproduced in this collection. These three plays reveal the range of Fallon's historical and social themes, combining intellectual subtlety with lyrical beauty and moments of broad humor...read more

Part biography, part fiction, this book tells of the life of an Irish poet, Padraic Fallon, his family and the people about them during a summer in the 1950s.

Product Description: The enormous talent of celebrated Irish Padraic Fallon is demonstrated in this volume, which includes early poems (1930–1945), poems of maturity (1946–1959), late poems (1960–1974), and poems from plays, translations, and versions of Homeric Hymns and Ballads...read more