The Appleman and The Poet

With this luscious, posthumous windfall, Lilliput offers a fifth collection of Butler’s essays, found after his death, a capstone to the project begun with Escape from the Anthill in 1985: to bring to light the works of one of Ireland’s great prose writers of the twentieth century. Each essay is as resonant and rewarding as those in the existing canon. The Selected Letters will follow. Subject areas include: Russia in the 1930s (Leningrad and Soviet literature), Europe after the War (Spain, Balkans), North America in the 1960s (Church and State under Reagan), Autobiography, Ireland (Southern Protestantism, local history and archaeology, Literature (Joyce, Yeats and Rebecca West) - an astonishing variety of pieces composed between 1930 and 1990. With an Afterword and Bibliography by Butler scholar Robert Tobin.