Padraic Colum
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When the King of Ireland's son sets out to find the Enchanter of the Back-Lands, he meets the Enchanter's daughter Fedelma and is betrothed to her; but he loses her and searches in the Land of the Mist, the Town of the Red Castle, and many different worlds before he finds her.
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Also known as "The Children's Homer," this is Irish writer Padraic Colum's retelling of the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for young people. Colum's rich, evocative prose narrates the travails of Odysseus, King of Ithaca: his experiences fighting the Trojan War, and his ten years' journey home to his faithful wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett )
7) Dubliners
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The sisters -- An encounter -- Araby -- Eveline -- After the race -- Two gallants -- The boarding house -- A little cloud -- Counterparts -- Clay --A Painful Case -- Ivy Day in the Committee Room -- A Mother -- Grace -- and perhaps the most welL-known of all the stories (and the longest): The Dead.