Strumpet City by James Plunkett

Strumpet City is a 1969 historical novel by James Plunkett set in Dublin, Ireland, around the time of the 1913 Dublin Lock-out. In 1980, it was adapted into a successful TV drama by Hugh Leonard for RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster. The novel is an epic, tracing the lives of a dozen characters as they are swept up in the tumultuous events that affected Dublin between 1907 and 1914.

The 1760th greatest fiction book of all time


This book is on the following lists:

  1. - 100 Novels That Shaped Our World (BBC)

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Strumpet city;: A novel Hardcover 1314374 $600.50 $4.25
Strumpet City Paperback 4584587 $2.99 2006
Strumpet City Mass Market Paperback 6382541 $9.33
Strumpet City: A Reissue Hardcover 2818200 $4.29 1986
Strumpet City: One City One Book edition Paperback 110891 $18.53 $6.59 2013
Strumpet City: Bestselling Irish novel with an introduction by Fintan O'Toole Kindle Edition 409270 $5.99 2013