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    A Study Guide for Liam O'Flaherty's "Wave"
    A Study Guide for Liam O'Flaherty's "Wave"
    A Study Guide for Liam O'Flaherty's "Wave"
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    A Study Guide for Liam O'Flaherty's "Wave"

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    A Study Guide for Liam O'Flaherty's "Wave," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535842471
    A Study Guide for Liam O'Flaherty's "Wave"

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      A Study Guide for Liam O'Flaherty's "Wave" - Gale

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      The Wave

      Liam O’Flaherty

      1924

      Introduction

      This story was included in a collection of early stories titled Spring Sowing. When O’Flaherty’s friend and mentor, the critic Edward Garnett, told him to write about those things with which he was familiar, he naturally turned to the scene of his childhood: the bleak Aran Islands. Many of his stories are graphic descriptions of the peasant life on these nearly barren rocks, as human beings grapple with the unforgiving elements of nature. There are also stories, nine of them in this collection, that have to do with animals and their treatment by human beings. In The Wave, however, there are neither human nor animal characters, but one part of nature against

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