PREFACE.
After the reader shall, have perused the annexed startling
and extraordinary narrative, on which I have founded
the tale of the Tithe-Proctor, I am sure he will admit
that there is very littl...
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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 Tithe-Proctor
William Carleton