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The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland by Frank O'connor is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b>'Father,' I said, feeling I might as well get it over while I had him in a good humour, 'I had it all arranged to kill my grandmother.'</b><br><br>Praised as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor was a modern master of the short story. From an amateur brass band divided by partisanship to English soldiers who befriend their Irish captors, and from a child's comic confession to the end of a small-town friendship, these four humorous and tragic stories refract universal truths through the prism
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Frank O'connor
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141971186
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (51 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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