At Swim-Two-Birds
Irish novelist, born 1911.
At Swim-Two-Birds is a 1939 novel by Flann O’Brien.
On 2 of the 15 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Flann O’Brien
- First published
- 1939
- Length
- 240 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Comic novels and satire, Postmodern, Modernist
Is At Swim-Two-Birds worth reading?
2 of the 15 best-of lists it could have made include it: All-Time 100 Novels and The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of At Swim-Two-Birds
The edition we link to is the Penguin Classics paperback (2000), 240 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics (paperback, 2000)
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN
- 9780141182681
How critics and readers rate At Swim-Two-Birds
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 17% of the points available on critics' lists, against 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work