A tour de force of prose which captures all the poetry and drama of a child's experience of Dublin in the 30s and 40s. The author's crystal-clear recollections, recounted with sparkling humor and immediacy, and the vast array of colorful characters, combine to create an engaging and enthralling read.

Home Before Night

Leonard, Hugh

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Group Canada

A tour de force of prose which captures all the poetry and drama of a child's experience of Dublin in the 30s and 40s. The author's crystal-clear recollections, recounted with sparkling humor and immediacy, and the vast array of colorful characters, combine to create an engaging and enthralling read.

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Books, Ltd.

This is a companion volume to Hugh Leonard's "Home Before Night" containing anecdotes and stories of Leonard's childhood and growing up in Dublin. Leonard aims to reveal a picture of Irish habits - social, cultural and religious.

Out After Dark

Penguin??Books

Leonard writes about the comedies, tragedies and adventures of his many and varied feline friends.

Rover and Other Cats

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Penguin Putnam~trade

Da, a Life, Time Was

World Literature

Irish Book Center

Andre Deutsch

This is a companion volume to Hugh Leonard's "Home Before Night" containing anecdotes and stories of Leonard's childhood and growing up in Dublin. Leonard aims to reveal a picture of Irish habits - social, cultural and religious.

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Hugh Leonard's second volume of autobiography is a rich portrait of adolescence in Dublin in the 40s and 50s: schooldays and altar-boyhood, early bliss in the seven pennies at the Astoria, problems with Gloria and Dolores. Leonard stirs in theater anecdotes, vignettes of Patrick Kavanagh and Brenda Behan, and divulges his own beginnings as a writer. The result is a witty and entertaining analysis of Dublin and Dubliners by one of Ireland's finest playwrights.

Out After Dark (Methuen Biography)

Community & Culture

METHUEN

Fillums

In 1942, with war raging in Europe, the playwright "Perry" Perry and his wife Babs tire of Dublin literary life and move to the small, quiet coastal town of Drane. Drane, however, is more than it seems. Its social whirl revolves around the amateur dramatic society—"The Standing Ovations"—and the film society run by Dermo Grace, owner of the Robin Hood Hotel, a man with a finger in every pie. Perry loves the "fillums," though the Hays Code still applies ("total nudity not permissible"), and good always triumphs over evil. That's the way Judge Garrity, with his mortal loathing for sins of the flesh, thinks it should be. But it's not like life in Drane. Up on the hill is the German Embassy, rumored to be playing strange games; down below lies the church, and an explosive book left by the censorious Canon Turmoyle; and the astonished Perry is soon entangled in a web of hypocrisy and scandal, affairs and adultery, love, tragedy, and death.

Genre Fiction

Home Before Night (Methuen Biography)

Dramas & Plays

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Home Before Night

Home Before Night

Out After Dark

Rover and Other Cats

Da, a Life, Time Was

Home Before Night

Out After Dark

Out After Dark (Methuen Biography)

Fillums

Home Before Night (Methuen Biography)