The Son of Learning
Austin Clarke's play based on the Irish satire Aislinge Mac Conglinne
Author
Austin Clarke
Publisher
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1927
Printing Details
Undated, 1927 as per COPAC. First edition. Hardback, limited to one thousand copies, bound in blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board. 19 × 12.5cm, 68pp [1].
Austin Clarke's set in The Abbey of Cork in medieval times is a comedy based on the Irish satire Aislinge Mac Conglinne, in which a king with a gluttonous 'hunger demon' inside him is cured through the wit of a wandering scholar and poet.
Condition
This copy is in very good condition, bar some light fading to the cloth spine. Previous owner's nameplate to ffep.