"The Crock Of Gold" 1946 STEPHENS, James
$75
STEPHENS, James
[228] pp.
The Macmillan Company
1946
7 3/4" x 5 1/2"
VG/ G
The Crock of Gold is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, first published in 1912.
Summary
A mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the "battle of the sexes", it consists of six books, Book 1 – The Coming of Pan, Book 2 – The Philosopher's Journey, Book 3 – The Two Gods, Book 4 – The Philosopher's Return, Book 5 – The Policemen, Book 6 – The Thin Woman's Journey, that rotate around a philosopher and his quest to find the most beautiful woman in the world, Cáitilin Ni Murrachu, daughter of a remote mountain farm, and deliver her from the gods Pan and Aengus Óg, while himself going through a catharsis.