Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford book of Irish short stories / edited by William Trevor.

Publication

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

Trevor, William, 1928-2016

Description

xvi, 567 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Forty-five short stories that span the entire history of the Irish short story, feature works by such masters as James Joyce and Elizabeth Bowen, as well as new voices, including Bernard McLaverty and Desmond Hogan.

Subject

• Short stories, Irish
• Short stories, English > Irish authors
• Short stories, Irish
• Manners and customs
• Anthologie
• Geschichte
• Kurzgeschichte
• Nouvelles irlandaises > Anthologies
• Irländska noveller (engelskspråkiga)
• Litteratur
• Ireland > Social life and customs > Fiction
• Ireland > Fiction
• Ireland
• Irland
• Irland > vardagsliv och traditioner

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Short stories
• Fiction
• Short stories.
• Nouvelles.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The hour of death ; from In search of his youth ; Cromwell and the friar ; The girl and the sailor ; The four-leafed shamrock and the cock ; The cow that ate the piper / Traditional, edited and translated by Sean O'Sullivan -- Conal and Donal and Taig / Traditional, translated and retold by Seumas MacManus -- Adventures of a strolling player / Oliver Goldsmith -- The Limerick gloves / Maria Edgeworth -- The death of a devotee / William Carleton -- The brown man / Gerald Griffin -- Green tea / Sheridan Le Fanu -- Albert Nobbs / George Moore -- The sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- Philippa's fox-hunt / E.Œ. Somerville & Martin Ross -- The priest / Daniel Corkery -- The weaver's grave / Seumas O'Kelly -- The dead / James Joyce -- My little black ass / Padraic O Conaire -- The triangle / James Stephens -- Bush river / Joyce Cary -- The pedlar's revenge ; The fanatic / Liam O'Flaherty -- Her table spread / Elizabeth Bowen -- The faithless wife ; The sugawn chair / Sean O'Faolain -- Guests of the nation ; The majesty of the law / Frank O'Connor -- Pastorale / Patrick Boyle -- The hare-lip / Martin O Cadhain -- The poteen maker / Michael McLaverty -- The ring / Bryan MacMahon -- Sarah / Mary Lavin -- Desert Island / Terence De Vere White -- The pilgrims / Benedict Kiely -- Weep for our pride / James Plunkett -- Loser / Val Mulkerns -- The bird I fancied / Aidan Higgins -- Death in Jerusalem / William Trevor -- The diviner / Brian Friel -- An occasion of sin / John Montague -- Irish revel / Edna O'Brien -- First conjugation / Julia O'Faolain -- The beginning of an idea / John McGahern -- Life drawing / Bernard Mac Laverty -- The airedale / Desmond Hogan.

ISBN

• 0192141805
• 9780192141804
• 0192828452
• 9780192828453
• 0192801937
• 9780192801937

LCCN

88028147

OCLC

• ocm18463587
• 18463587
• SCSB-1723427

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library