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Collected stories / Frank O'Connor ; introduction by Richard Ellmann.
LIBRA PR6029.D58 A15 1982 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ireland--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Ireland.
- Manners and customs.
- Irlanda--Vida Social y Costumbres.
- Local Subjects:
- Irlanda--Vida Social y Costumbres.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 701 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1982.
- Summary:
- Stories of soldiers, nuns, priests, doctors, widows, children, old couples, lovers, and many others offer a frank portrait of life in Ireland.
- Contents:
- Guests of the nation
- The late Henry Conran
- The bridal night
- The Grand Vizier's daughters
- Songs without words
- The shephers
- The long road to Ummera
- The cheapjack
- The Luceys
- Uprooted
- The mad Lomasneys
- News for the church
- Judas
- The babes in the woods
- 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
- The 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1981.
- ISBN:
- 0394710487
- 9780394710488
- OCLC:
- 8387282
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