The Well of the Saints
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- Under 100
- First published
- 1905
- Pages
- 59
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Martin and Mary Doul are a pair of blind beggars in a lonely Irish glen who have spent years believing, on the word of teasing neighbors, that they are a handsome couple. When a wandering saint restores their sight with water from a holy well, the illusion shatters, and they see plainly how old and worn they and everyone around them really are. Synge shapes this three-act comedy into a strange meditation on whether truth is worth more than a kind lie, and the beggars' final choice is not what a pious audience might expect. Written in his rich Anglo-Irish idiom, it stands among his most unsettling works.
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Book facts
- Author
- J. M. Synge
- First published
- 1905
- Reading time
- About 70 minutes
- Pages
- 59
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Comedy
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online