The preface notes the deb
The preface notes the debt of the author to the serving girls he overheard during his stay in the Old Wicklow house, and claims that Mallarme and Huysmans are producing the richest modern literature. In the second act Sara makes a memorable toast to, "the pirates, preachers, and poteen-makers" and the title character remarks that, "it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the lights shining sideways when the night is down." At that point he's depressed because Pegeen is angry with him, but he cheers up when she agrees to marry him instead of wussy Shawn Keogh, and her father Michael says that, "a daring fellow is the jewel of the world." FTP, name this play about Christy Mahon, an Irish boy who thinks he has killed his father, the most famous work of John Millington Synge.
The preface notes the debt of the author to the serving girls he overheard during his stay in the Old Wicklow house, and claims that Mallarme and Huysmans are producing the richest modern literature.
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