PREFACE.
The incidents upon which this book is founded seem
to be extraordinary and startling, but they are true;
for, as Byron says, and as we all know, “Truth
is strange—­stranger th...
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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 Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain
William Carleton