Frank O'Connor

A child's jealousy of his place in his mother's life erupts when his father comes home from the war, not to subside until a new baby arrives placing his father and him in the same position.

Great Expectations / novel by Charles Dickens -- The duke's children / short story by Frank O'Connor -- selection from Silent Dancing / autobiographical essay by Judith Ortiz Cofer -- You are a part of me / poem by Frank Yerby -- Time does not bring relief / poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The pleasant Marey / article by Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The spinster's day/Journada de la soltera / poem by Rosario Castellanos ; translated by Magda Bogin -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / short story by Katherine Anne Porter -- The house on the hill / poem by Edward Arlington Robinson.

The letters between the Irish writer Frank O'Connor and William Maxwell, his editor at "The New Yorker." A moving, witty collection of correspondence between William Maxwell and Frank O'Connor provides a fascinating portrait of a rich and enduring friendship and a study of the inner life of the writer from the perspective of two literary giants. With 8 pages of photographs.

Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) is known primarily for his short stories, and fine ones they are. There are seventeen of them in this Reader, and the best of them, in the words of Richard Ellmann "stir those facial muscles which, we are told, are the same for both laughing and weeping." Except for the masterpiece, "Guests of the Nation," the stories included here have been out of print for twenty years, and one story had been previously unpublished. But this is a Reader and it celebrates the creative diversity of one of this century's finest writers. Here one can also sample O'Connor's skillful translations of Irish poetry, including "The Lament for Art O'Leary." There are a number of self-portraits, including "Meet Frank O'Connor" and "Writing a Story-One Man's Way." The final section includes a number of O'Connor's finest essays, from pieces on Yeats, Joyce, and Mozart, to ones on English and Irish pubs and one simply titled, "Ireland": "No one who does not love the sense of the past should ever come near us; nobody who does, whatever our faults may be, should give us the hard word."

Jackie faces his first confession with great trepidation following a warning lecture from his obnoxious, older sister.

A collection of stories with themes of "manhood, love, faith, and the infinite web of relationships to family, to church, and to country by which men and women are sustained or entrapped."

Correspondence between the author and his parents, Helen Anne and Angus McGill Mowat, during the latter years of the Second World War.

An essential book for writers; an important book for serious readers.

The story of Frank O'Connor is that of a shy child from a Cork slum who becomes aware that there is something beyond the confines of his life and the lives around him, something grander. And with resolve and labor, he makes his way toward it. From his childhood to the time of his release from imprisonment as a revolutionary, O'Connor conveys the moral fortune and the tragic elements of life, that sparked his storytelling - a life he describes as a "celebration of those who for me represented all I should ever know of God."

The Attack on the Fort Sir Tatton Sykes Captain Isaiah Sellers Lady Blessington RMS. Titanic The Man Who Would Be King The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Lottery The Girls in Their Sunnner Dresses The Furnished Room De Mortuis The Necklace [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]( A Piece of Neus I See You Never Haircut Crossing into Poland War The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Tennessee's Partner [Araby]( The Drunkard The Lament Tickets, Please Eventide Old Red Cruel and Barbarous Treatment A Domestic Dilennna Christ in Flanders Love: Three Pages from a Sportsman's Book Love The Killers The Fly I Want to Knou Why The Adulterous Woman [A Rose for Emily]( A Good Man Is Hard to Find In the Penal Colony Through the Quinquina Glass The Bitch A Father-to-Be The Fight The Far and the Near The Sensible Thing A Christmas Memory Realpolitik The Sailor Boy's Tale Amy Foster The Killing of the Dragon Dermuche Disorder and Early Sorro•-w No Place for You, My Love 1 Write Goodbye, My Brother What Happened Noon Wine Blackberry Winter

Anthology of prose and poetry dealing with Ireland.

Short stories about small-town life in Ireland.

Twenty-nine tales of Ireland, selected by the author from his earlier books.