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An easy guide to the subtleties of modern French usage by Dr Michael Abecassis of the University of Oxford, illustrated with one hundred and twenty-five drawings by Igor Bratusek (Sorbonne). Presented in dictionary form (with all necessary translations) and invaluable for all levels of French language ability. - A sure cure for doubt.

"I have run the gauntlet of many borders in my time, but the border I grew up with at home was far and away the most trying," writes Seamas OCathain (Professor Emeritus at University College Dublin, and former Director of the National Folklore Collection) of the Irish border - "a border policed by little corporals that was the bane of our lives."

"I have run the gauntlet of many borders in my time, but the border I grew up with at home was far and away the most trying," writes Seamas OCathain (Professor Emeritus at University College Dublin, and former Director of the National Folklore Collection) of the Irish border - "a border policed by little corporals that was the bane of our lives."

A decade before the Great Famine, millions of Irish suffered a level of poverty that horrified the rest of Europe. The Hungarian Baron Jozsef Eotvos sought to analyze the reasons why in this remarkable work, published in Hungarian in 1840.

Three Novellas set in Dublin's Georgian Terraces after the 2008 financial collapse.

Illustrated mini dictionary of actors & actresses of the French cinema (mini dictionnaire des acteurs et actrices francais): edited by Dr Michael ABECASSIS (University of Oxford), with Marcelline BLOCK (Princeton University). Contains a 2,200-entry Index of (mainly) French Films.

In 1837, the conditions of the poor in Ireland - a third of the population - were worse than anywhere else in Europe. The Irish poor were half-naked and often without food - victims of bigotry and a cruel history, the idealistic young Baron Eotvos believed. A vivid last glimpse of a doomed community that would be largely wiped out a decade later.

Entertaining illustrated dual-language book for anyone wishing to upgrade school French to idiomatic, native-speaker French. Sophisticated, funny, technically brilliant, 'Brighter French' was first published for the flapper generation in 1927 and sold like a popular novel. Fully revised & extended edition, noting French Spelling Reform of 1990 etc

Wonderful, forgotten, short stories by the man John Galsworthy described as 'one of the best short-story writers of all time.' Some are hilarious, some poignant; among them - long out of print until now - is the story James Hilton named his 'favourite short story.' Many are about World War I and its aftermath. All make compulsive reading.