James Stephens

Una de las obras más conocidas y leídas de la literatura irlandesa, si bien no se había traducido al español hasta nuestra edición del año 2007, que ahora reeditamos.

James Stephens"American Diary" is one of the most important documents of early Fenianism. It uncovers the difficulties facing the movements founders, and offers an insight into mid nineteenth-century American life and the Irish-American community. It also provides a unique first-hand impression of James Stephens striking personality. It is one of Stephens scarce full-length pieces and one of the best written, although it has not previously been published in its entirety.

More Suspect Speaking features another fifteen short short stories featuring people who have difficulty in spoken communication. People with aphasia. [Aphasia is the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or brain injury.] Rather than a biography or an academic text, these stories reflect the everyday experience of people with aphasia, their supporters and carers. In these tales, they will see themselves or their loved ones.The vocabulary of these stories are deliberately adult because aphasia doesnt diminish intellect. More Suspect Speaking stories give a taste of what aphasiacs go through.More of the frustrations and blessings of life with aphasia.Every day.Every conversation. Each story (except the last one) has three versions: A, B and C. The A version is people who have an effort or difficulty in reading. The sentences are compact, the layout is spacious, and descriptions are sparse perfect for people recovering from the effects of aphasia. The C versions are for people who can read (recovered aphasiacs?) or people with aphasia who enjoy being read to by carers, family members, supporters.Or, for non-aphasiacs, these stories contain an inkling of what people with aphasia deal with. The B versions are in-between. For some people with aphasia, re-reading the stories in their recovery could be therapeutic.

The Crock of Gold is a unique mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the battle of the sexes all with charm, humour and good grace, rotating around the astonishing story of what happens when Pan shows up in Ireland, what Angus Og does about it, and what becomes of the Daughter of Murrachu who gets caught in between them.

Commentator: Padraic Colum

James Stephens afirmó que «en este libro hay tan solo un personaje: el ser humano» pues cada uno de los seres que pueblan sus páginas simboliza alguna de las facultades del alma humana. Sin embargo,

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Su madre casi nunca se lavaba. Mantenía que la limpieza no era buena para la salud y que apagaba el brillo natural del rostro, y que, además, el jabón o bien atirantaba la piel o la arrugaba. Su propio rostro estaba tirante en algunos pintos y flácido en otros, y Mary Makebelieve pensaba que las zonas tirantes eran las que su madre solía lavarse cuando era joven, y las flácidas aquellas que nunca había aseado.

The suspect speakerThere are fifteen short short stories in this volume. All the stories are about people who have difficulty in verbal communication.People with aphasia.Aphasia is the loss of a previously held ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, resulting from damage to the brain caused by injury or disease. These stories contain a taste, an inkling, of what it is to have aphasia: the frustrations, the anger, the acceptance and the blessings.Each story here has three versions: A, B and C.The A version is for people who have aphasia that have difficulty in reading. The sentences are compact and descriptions are sparse.The C versions is for people with aphasia who can read, or who like to be read to, by their supporters/carers.The B versions are in-between a therapeutic sandwich. People who have aphasia can get the gist of the stories from the A version, and in recovery, over time, can extend their reading ability for the B or C stories.

La olla de oro (1912) es quizá la novela de aprendizaje más original que se haya escrito, pues, aunque pródiga en enseñanzas y sentencias, no se deriva de ella conclusión alguna, a no ser el gran logro comun que es existir. Con abierta ironia, James Stephens recrea un mundo en donde conviven ladrones y filosofos, pastoras y dioses, hombres de vida triste y tribus de hadas.

The Suspect Speaker Series comprises short stories about people with aphasia, the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or brain injury.The third in the series, Even More Suspect Speaking has seven short stories, a group of five connected short stories and poems. The short stories have two versions: The "A" versions has shorter sentences and more gaps perfect for people with aphasia.The "B" version is fuller. It has more descriptive prose perfect for carers and family members who have an acquaintance with aphasia and what it means.Highly recommended for readers with aphasia and their supporters and care partners.Darlene Williamson, MA, CCC-SLP, President of National Aphasia Association (USA) ...different journeys and experiences that people have, in such a rich and compelling way...Professor Suzanne C Purdy, The University of Auckland

Contains: / The Story Of Tuan Mac Cairill / The Boyhood Of Fionn / The Birth Of Bran / OisiNS Mother / The Wooing Of Becfola / The Little Brawl At Allen / The Carl Of The Drab Coat / The Enchanted Cave Of Cesh Corran / Becuma Of The White Skin / MonganS Frenzy

A Suspect Quartet is the fourth book in The Suspect Speaker Series. It has four novelettes (well, three longer short stories and one novelette) about people with aphasia. The stories are gritty, tragic, funny, and romantic.Aphasia is the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or brain injury, mainly stroke. The other three books had shorter and longer versions for each story. This is not the case for A Suspect Quartet but each one has short chapters, easier to deal with if your reading (or listening) stamina is limited. The subjects are various: A celebrated but depressed artist and his protege, a Sci-Fi tale about a survivor of an explosion, a hunky adrenalin junky looking for meaning, and a fantasy involving an apprentice magician and his friends.