O Brien John Books
At home in the heart of Appalachia
By O Brien John
"John O'Brien was born in Philadelphia, his father having left his beloved home in the West Virginia mountains after an impoverished childhood made all the more painful by family tragedy. Strugglin...
Read MoreAnacreon redivivus
In 1554 the scholar and printer Henri Estienne published what he believed to be the odes of the ancient Greek poet, Anacreon. These odes, known today as the Anacreontea, were in fact pseudonymous p...
Read MoreHarlequin Britain
By O Brien John
"Harlequin Britain establishes the emergence of eighteenth-century English pantomime, with its promiscuous blending of genies and subjects, as a key moment in the development of modern entertainmen...
Read MoreThe assault on Tony's
By O Brien John
With The Assault on Tony's, John O'Brien's curiously distinctive combination of tone and subject matter - an unapologetic, unsentimental, and at times exuberant examination of the grittier side of...
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