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Frank O' Connor collected stories / Frank O' Connor ; introduced by Richard Ellmann.

By: O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966.
Contributor(s): Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Random House, 1982Description: xiii, 702 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0394710487.Subject(s): Short stories, English | Ireland -- Social life and customs -- FictionDDC classification: 823.912
Contents:
Guests of the Nation -- The Late Henry Conran -- The Bridal Night -- The Grand Vizier's Daughters -- Song without words -- The Shepherds -- The long road to Ummera -- The Cheapjack -- The Luceys -- Uprooted -- The Mad Lomasneys -- News for the Church -- Judas -- The Babes in the Wood -- The Frying-Pan -- The Miracle -- Don Juan's Temptation -- First Confession -- The Man of the House -- The Drunkard -- Christmas Morning -- My First Protestant -- Legal Aid -- The Masculine Principle -- The Sentry -- The Lady of the Sagas -- Darcy in the Land of Youth -- My Oedipus Complex -- The Pretender -- Freedom -- Peasants -- The Majesty of the Law -- Eternal Triangle -- Masculine Protest -- The Sorcerer's Apprentice -- The Little Mother -- A Sense of Responsibility -- Counsel for Oedipus -- The Old Faith -- Unapproved Route -- The Study of History -- Expectation of Life -- The Ugly Duckling -- Fish for Friday -- A Set of Variations on a Borrowed Theme -- The American Wife -- The impossible Marriage -- The Cheat -- The Weeping Children -- An Out-and-Out free gift -- The Corkerys -- A story by Maupassant -- A Great man -- Androcles and the Army -- Public Opinion -- Achilles' Heel -- The Wreath -- The Teacher's Mass -- The Martyr -- Requiem -- An act of charity -- The mass Island -- There is a lone house -- The story teller -- Last post -- The Cornet player who betrayed Ireland -- Ghosts.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 823.912 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 10/01/2024 00010565
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Frank O'Connor is regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, and a master of the short story form. In this definitive compilation of his stories, including "Guests of the Nation," O'Connor explores universal themes of love, loss, and faith through the particulars of the Irish experience, both in Ireland and abroad.

Guests of the Nation -- The Late Henry Conran -- The Bridal Night -- The Grand Vizier's Daughters -- Song without words -- The Shepherds -- The long road to Ummera -- The Cheapjack -- The Luceys -- Uprooted -- The Mad Lomasneys -- News for the Church -- Judas -- The Babes in the Wood -- The Frying-Pan -- The Miracle -- Don Juan's Temptation -- First Confession -- The Man of the House -- The Drunkard -- Christmas Morning -- My First Protestant -- Legal Aid -- The Masculine Principle -- The Sentry -- The Lady of the Sagas -- Darcy in the Land of Youth -- My Oedipus Complex -- The Pretender -- Freedom -- Peasants -- The Majesty of the Law -- Eternal Triangle -- Masculine Protest -- The Sorcerer's Apprentice -- The Little Mother -- A Sense of Responsibility -- Counsel for Oedipus -- The Old Faith -- Unapproved Route -- The Study of History -- Expectation of Life -- The Ugly Duckling -- Fish for Friday -- A Set of Variations on a Borrowed Theme -- The American Wife -- The impossible Marriage -- The Cheat -- The Weeping Children -- An Out-and-Out free gift -- The Corkerys -- A story by Maupassant -- A Great man -- Androcles and the Army -- Public Opinion -- Achilles' Heel -- The Wreath -- The Teacher's Mass -- The Martyr -- Requiem -- An act of charity -- The mass Island -- There is a lone house -- The story teller -- Last post -- The Cornet player who betrayed Ireland -- Ghosts.

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Booklist Review

The consummate Irish yarn spinner, O'Connor has secured his place in Irish letters with his lively, humorous short stories. O'Connor's sense of humanity, deep and warm, serves as the backdrop for these explorations of the distinctive furnishings and nuances of Irish life, particularly as they apply to the hardships of maintaining a strong family. He wrote with an ear toward storytelling's oral tradition; his voice is unmistakable and unrivaled.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

An Irish master of the short story, Frank O'Connor was born Michael O'Donovan in Cork. It is not surprising to learn in the first part of his autobiography, An Only Child (1961), that he took his adored mother's name. O'Connor's absorbing interest was the literary treasury of Ireland. He labored tirelessly over masterful translations of ancient Gaelic works. O'Connor wrote the well-received A Short History of Irish Literature: A Backward Look and edited an anthology of prose and poetry, A Book of Ireland (1959), which contains some of his own translations from the Gaelic. His Shakespeare's Progress (1960) is an appraisal of the bard. In The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (1963), he examines the work of those he considers the great short story writers of the past. The subjects of his own stories are the middle and lower-middle classes of his beloved Ireland. In his last years, O'Connor lived mostly in the United States, where he taught at Harvard and Northwestern universities. He passed away in 1966.

The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award which is named in his honor because he devoted much of his work to this writing form began in 2005. It is an international literary award presented for the best short story collection. The prize amount is $25,000 (as of 2012). Each year, roughly sixty books are longlisted, with either four or six books shortlisted, the final decision is made by three judges. In 2014 the winner was Collin Barrett for his work Young Skins.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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