The Third Policeman

If you ever want to find out what it's like being the only sober person in a room full of professors telling each other jokes in Latin and heffing and hawing and pulling each others' beards, here's a good place to start. Otherwise not.......more

Every one of us is looking for something and often in the strangest places… Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. The same happens to those who read the books like The Third Policeman… There is something in common between this novel and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderl......more

"It Might be the Supreme Pancake" Flann O’Brien finished this novel in 1940, but it wasn’t published until 1967, the year after he died of cancer. It must have broken his heart that it was initially rejected for publication. It’s arguable that it was finally released at a far more appreciative time. H......more