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This book explores the logic and historical origins of a strange taboo that has haunted literary critics since the 1940s, keeping them from referring to the intentions of authors without apology. The taboo was enforced by a seminal article, "The Intentional Fallacy, " and it deepened during the era of poststructuralist theory. Even now, when the vocabulary of "critique" that has dominated the literary field is under sweeping revision, the matt...

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The Wormdigger's Daughter is the heart-breaking story of a family on the run. Molly and her husband Frank work on a large estate in Ireland. Having already lost three sons to their hard life, they focus all of their love on their daughter, Angel. When they overhear the master of the estate lay claim to her, they flee in the dead of night. After being falsely accused of stealing they become fugitives and must disguise Angel as a boy. Their live...

In 1919, Major Brendan Archer returns from the Great War to claim his fiance, whose family owns the Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough, Ireland. She is strangely altered, however, along with the hotel, which is in spectacular decline. There is unrest in the East, and Ireland itself senses the mounting violence of its "troubles." Winner of the Book Prize.