CHAPTER I.
One evening in the beginning of the eighteenth century—­as
nearly as we can conjecture, the year might be that
of 1720—­some time about the end of April,
a young man nam...
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William Carleton was a storyteller first and last. Unlike other Irish literary nationalists of the nineteenth century, he did not look for his true subject in the distant past--in nostalgia or in the ...
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The Dead Boxer
William Carleton