# The Great Hunger

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- Authors: [Patrick Kavanagh](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-kavanagh)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2018-02-22

## Description

'I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .' By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

## Editions

### The Great Hunger

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4133-934-3
- Pages: 64
- Published: 2018-02-22
- Language: en_GB

### The Great Hunger

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4133-936-7
- Published: 2018-02-22
- Language: en_GB