Title: Interesting Subject
Product review: As the works of Carleton can be read for free at Google books for one the only reason to spend money on this book is for the introduction and notes. The editor has expanded on the introduction in his work on the shillelagh so you would be better off spending your coin on that instead. The notes are interesting but anyone who can make it through Dickens won't have any trouble with Carleton.The Faction Fight story is full of the negative Irish stereotypes the editor campaigns against. Neal Malone is a mysoginistic folk talethat was probably socially acceptable when it was written. The best of the bunch by far is the Party Fight and Funeral, which is a biographical essay.I would recommend "Shillelagh" before this book, but based on its own merits I got four stars worth of entertainment and education from this tome.
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