Darby O’Gill and the Good People
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- First published
- 1903
- Pages
- 139
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Herminie Templeton Kavanagh gathered these comic Irish folk tales in 1903, introducing Darby O'Gill, a quick-tongued farmer who keeps stumbling into the company of the fairies, or as the country people call them, the Good People. Across a handful of linked stories Darby outwits Brian Connors, the King of the Fairies, bargains his way out of an underground fairy fort, and trades wits with a leprechaun and a wailing banshee. Kavanagh writes in a warm Hiberno-English brogue, mixing superstition, sly humor, and real affection for rural Ireland. The tales later gave Walt Disney the basis for his 1959 film.
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Book facts
- First published
- 1903
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 139
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Fantasy Books
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online