Stories of Red Hanrahan. The Secret Rose: Rosa Alchemica (1913)
Book ID: 67150
Price: €95.00
Stories of Red Hanrahan. The Secret Rose: Rosa Alchemica. London: Bullen, 1913. First Edition Thus. Pp, 228, uncut & unopened. Quarter green cloth paper boards. Title lettered in black to spine. Heavy foxing to title page, otherwise a very good copy.
Written in the musical speech of the region of Kiltartan in County Galway, this collection of stories centers on country schoolmaster Red Hanrahan and his supernatural experiences. Stories include “The Twisting of the Rope,” “Red Hanrahan’s Curse,” “Hanrahan’s Vision,” and other enchanting tales.
Additional fables include those of The Secret Rose and Rosa Alchemica, featuring Yeats’s personal interpretations of Celtic mythology and occult legends.
[Wade 104].
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