IRELAND AUTHOR · FICTION · SHORT
William Trevor
Also known as: WILLIAM TREVOR, William trevor
'I am Mrs da Tanka,' said Mrs da Tanka.
— from The collected stories
Most acclaimed
Haunted Stories
The lonesome place / August Derleth Such a sweet little girl / Lance Salway A ghost story / Mark Twain Footsteps invisible / Robert Arthur The gnomon / Jan Mark The haunted and the haunters (abridged) / Edward Bulwer-Lytton If she bends, she breaks / John Gordon Room 18 / Aidan Chambers Brownie / R. Chetwynd-Hayes The lamp / Agatha Christie The haunting of Chas McGill / Robert Westall [Tell-tale Heart]( / Edgar Allan Poe The death of Paggy Morrissey / William Trevor Christmas in the rectory / Catherine Storr The Canterville ghost (abridged) / Oscar Wilde
The Treasury of English Short Stories
1985
The Reeve's Tale / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The Apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- The Wedding of Jenny Distaff / Richard Steele -- A Story of an Heir / Joseph Addison -- The Mysterious Bride / James Hogg -- The Tapestried Chamber or The Lady in the Sacque / Sir Walter Scott -- The Half-Brothers / Elizabeth Gaskell -- Snobs and Marriage / William Makepeace Thackeray -- The Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn / Charles Dickens -- The White Cat of Drumgunniol / J.S. Le Fanu -- Returning Home / Anthony Trollope -- The Dead Hand / Wilkie Collins -- A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four / Thomas Hardy -- The Story of a Piebald Horse / W.H. Hudson -- A Lodging for the Night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Birthday of the Infanta / Oscar Wilde -- Il Conde / Joseph Conrad -- The New Catacomb / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Mary Postgate / Rudyard Kipling -- Mr. Brisher's Treasure / H.G. Wells -- The Broken Boot / John Galsworthy -- Tobermory / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- The Creatures / Walter de la Mare -- The Colonel's Lady / W. Somerset Maugham -- Arabesque- The Mouse / A.E. Coppard -- The Boarding House / James Moyce -- The Duchess and the Jeweller / Virginia Woolf. Bachelors / Hugh Walpole -- The Prussian Officer / D.H. Lawrence -- New Women / Joyce Cary -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- Idenborough / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Fard / Aldous Huxley -- Spring Sowing / Liam O'Flaherty -- Hand in Glove / Elizabeth Bowen -- Sinners / Sean O'Faolain -- The Spree / V.S. Pritchett -- A Wedding-Dress / Morley Callaghan -- Judas / Frank O'Connor -- A Drink in the Passage / Alan Paton -- Mortmain / Graham Greene -- The Spring Hat / H.E. Bates -- Under the Banyan Tree / R.K. Narayan -- The Old Man / Daphne du Maurier -- Eterna / Mary Lavin -- Willy-Wagtails by Moonlight / Patrick White -- The True Story / Dylan Thomas -- [Royal Jelly]( / Roald Dahl -- The Fathers' Daughters / Muriel Spark -- Two Potters / Doris Lessing -- The Confirmation Suit / Brendan Behan -- Native Country / Nadine Gordimer -- Prizes / Janet Frame -- Timoshenko / Iain Crichton Smith -- The Ballroom of Romance / William Trevor -- A Day in the Country / Dan Jacobson -- Weekend / Shirley Hazzard -- Prue / Alice Munro -- Legend for a Painting / Julia O'Faolain -- Threnody / Fay Weldon -- Cords / Edna O'Brien -- Rape Fantasies / Margaret Atwood -- The Courtship of Mr. Lyon / Angela Carter -- Secrets / Bernard MacLaverty -- Night in Tunisia / Neil Jordan.
Going home
"Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. But—a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be strong enough to link people who hate each other now. Perhaps..."Going Home is Doris Lessing's account of her first journey back to Africa, the land in which she grew up and in which so much of her emotion and her concern are still invested. Returning to Southern Rhodesia in 1956, she found that her love of Africa had remained as strong as her hatred of the idea of "white supremacy" espoused by its ruling class. Going Home evokes brilliantly the experience of the people, black and white, who have shaped and will shape a beloved country.