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The Collected Stories - a stunning volume of William Trevor's
unforgettable short stories William Trevor is one of the most
renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the
greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by
the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights
into the human heart. Here is a collection of his short fiction,
with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the
moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the
penetrating 'Memories of Youghal' to the bittersweet 'Bodily
Secrets' and the elegiac 'Two More Gallants', here are masterpieces
of insight, depth, drama and humanity, acutely rendered by a modern
master. 'A textbook for anyone who ever wanted to write a story,
and a treasure for anyone who loves to read them' Madison Smartt
Bell 'Extraordinary... Mr. Trevor's sheer intensity of entry into
the lives of his people...proceeds to uncover new layers of
yearning and pain, new angles of vision and credible thought' The
New York Times Book Review
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Ireland has been called a nation of story-tellers. "Stories of one
kind or another have a way of pressing themselves into Irish
conversation, both as entertainment and as a form of
communication," writes William Trevor. "For centuries they have
been offered to strangers, almost as hospitality is: tall stories,
simple stories, stories of extraordinary deeds, of mysteries and
wonders, of gentleness, love, cruelty, and violence." Himself an
accomplished short story writer, Trevor has gathered here a
collection of stories that represent not only the best of Irish
short story writing, but the best of the genre.
Spanning the entire history of the Irish short story, from
folk-tales to modern writing, this is the most broad-ranging
anthology available. Included are such masters as James Joyce and
Elizabeth Bowen, who established Ireland at the forefront of the
modern short story, as well as Frank O'Connor and Sean O'Faolain,
the two most important writers since Joyce and Bowen. Trevor has
selected stories by Bernard McLaverty and Desmond Hogan to
represent the new generation of writers. But, as Elizabeth Bowen
observed, the modern short story in Ireland is "a young art," and
it is against the nation's deeply rooted oral tradition that it
must be considered. Toward this end, The Oxford Book of Irish Short
Stories includes seven folk tales translated from the Irish by Sean
O'Sullivan, and Seamus MacManus's re-telling of an Irish fairy
tale.
William Trevor is one of today's most famous and respected Irish
writers. (His work is represented here by the short story "Death in
Jerusalem.") The 45 stories he has selected for this anthology, for
which he has written a generous introduction, cover a 250-year
period and works by 35 authors. Together they demonstrate the
development of the short story in Ireland, a land where a flair for
storytelling has "become a national characteristic."
'What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and
showthe underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly
compassionate' Elizabeth Strout In this final collection of ten
exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes
into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and
his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again
years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed
dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's
theft in exchange for his beautiful music. These gorgeous stories -
the last that Trevor wrote before his death - affirm his place as
one of the world's greatest storytellers. 'Trevor is a master of
both language and storytelling' Hilary Mantel 'He is one of the
great short-story writers, at his best the equal of Chekhov' John
Banville 'The greatest living writer of short stories in the
English language' New Yorker
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one
of the world's greatest writers Winner of the Whitbread Prize for
Best Novel of the Year Murder and revenge during the Irish Civil
War The Quintons have lived in the old house in Cork for hundreds
of years. Though Anglo-Irish Protestant, they sympathize with the
cause of independence and secretly fund Michael Collins' fighters.
But one of their workers is an informer to the British, and when
he's murdered on their land, though they know nothing of it, the
Black and Tans come seeking revenge. Till now young Willy Quinton
has led a pleasant, cosseted life. But the murder of his father and
sisters by British soldiers brings him to a point when he can only
contemplate revenge himself. He sets off for Liverpool with hatred
in his heart. Will he survive? Will the cycle ever be broken? 'To
my mind William Trevor's best novel and a very fine one' Graham
Greene William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, in 1928.
He spent his childhood in Ireland and was educated at Trinity
College, Dublin, but has lived in England for many years. An
acknowledged master of the short-story form, he has also written
many highly acclaimed novels: he has won the Whitbread Fiction
Prize three times and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize four
times. His most recent novel was Love and Summer (Penguin, 2010).
'A master of both language and storytelling' HILARY MANTEL 'Compact
and ordinary, it was a town in a hollow that had grown up there for
no reason that anyone knew or wondered about . . .' Rathmoye,
Ireland, in the middle of the last century, and into town comes a
stranger on the day of Eileen Connulty's funeral. Taking unwanted
and unasked for photographs, Florian Kilderry upsets its carefully
settled status quo. But Ellie, a young convent girl married to a
farmer still mourning his first wife, cannot help but be drawn to
this trespassing youth. Over the course of a long, warm summer
Ellie and Florian form an attachment that sleepy Rathmoye cannot
ignore . . . 'Unbearably moving' Spectator
The Children Of Dynmouth - a classic prize-winning novel by William
Trevor William Trevor's The Children of Dynmouth (Winner of the
Whitbread Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) was first
published in 1976 and is a classic account of evil lurking in the
most unlikely places. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious
teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland seaside town
of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the
adults there, who only realise the sinister purpose to which he
seeks to put his knowledge too late. 'A small masterpiece of
understatement ... a work of rare compassion' Joyce Carol Oates,
New York Times If you enjoyed The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and
Summer, you will love this book. It will also be adored by readers
of Colm Toibin and William Boyd. William Trevor was born in
Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written eighteen novels and
novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a
number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire
Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award
and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's
literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to
literature. His books in Penguin are: After Rain; A Bit on the
Side; Bodily Secrets; Cheating at Canasta; The Children of
Dynmouth; The Collected Stories (Volumes One and Two); Death in
Summer; Felicia's Journey; Fools of Fortune; The Hill Bachelors;
Love and Summer; The Mark-2 Wife; Selected Stories; The Story of
Lucy Gault and Two Lives.
Love and Summer - a remarkable, heart-rending novel by acclaimed
writer William Trevor 'Lingers in the memory as a beautiful
meditation on love, belonging and the impossibility of escape'
Observer 'Unbearably moving' Spectator It is summer and a stranger
has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young
convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning
his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger
form an illicit attachment. And those in the town can only watch,
holding their tongues, as passion, love and fate take their
inevitable course. 'A portrait of a brackish rural backwater,
complete with family tragedy, sexual scandal, a repressed spinster
and a half-crazed ancient retainer . . . delicate, elegiac, written
with all Trevor's trademark compassion and understanding' Daily
Mail 'A series of wrenching human dramas, which Trevor depicts with
kindness and beautiful delicacy' Sunday Telegraph 'Brilliant.
Trevor is the ultimate Old Master' Evening Standard 'Beautiful. A
flawless work of art' Independent on Sunday Readers of The Story of
Lucy Gault and Felicia's Journey will adore Love and Summer. It
will also be cherished by readers of Colm Toibin and William Boyd.
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has
written eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short
stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the
Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the
Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature
Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002
he was knighted for his services to literature. His books in
Penguin are: After Rain; A Bit on the Side; Bodily Secrets;
Cheating at Canasta; The Children of Dynmouth; The Collected
Stories (Volumes One and Two); Death in Summer; Felicia's Journey;
Fools of Fortune; The Hill Bachelors; Love and Summer; The Mark-2
Wife; Selected Stories; The Story of Lucy Gault and Two Lives.
This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the
sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the
psychological tricks they use to win it. Terry Williams and Trevor
B. Milton, two prominent sociologists and ethnographers, spent
years with New York con artists to uncover their secrets. The
result is an unprecedented view into how con games operate, whether
in back alleys and side streets or in police precincts and Wall
Street boiler rooms. Whether it's selling bootleg goods, playing
the numbers, squatting rent-free, scamming tourists with bogus
stories, selling knockoffs on Canal Street, or crafting Ponzi
schemes, con artists use verbal persuasion, physical misdirection,
and sheer charm to convince others to do what they want. Williams
and Milton examine this act of performance art and find meaning in
its methods to exact bounty from unsuspecting tourists and ordinary
New Yorkers alike. Through their sophisticated exploration of the
personal experiences and influences that create a successful
hustler, they build a portrait of unusual emotional and
psychological depth. Their work also offers a new take on structure
and opportunity, showing how the city's unique urban and social
architecture lends itself to the perfect con.
"Two Lives offers two superb novels in one volume . . . as rich and
moving as anything I have read in years. . . . Marvelous." --"The
Guardian"
Presented here are two unforgettable short novels by acclaimed
author William Trevor, both of which focus on women who retreat
into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real
and what is not become blurred.
In "Reading Turgenev," an Irish country girl is trapped in a
loveless marriage with an older man, but she finds release in
secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian
novels. This novella was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
The second novella, "My House in Umbria," tells how romantic
novelist Emily Delahunty helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a
train by inventing colorful pasts for her patients.
"A sensibility reigns here which is at once inquisitive and
loving. . . . Trevor's is among the most subtle and sophisticated
fiction being written today." --John Banville, "The New York Review
of Books"
"A writer at the peak of his powers; Two Lives] reminds you what
good reading is all about." --Anne Tyler, "Chicago Sun Times"
"One of the most beautiful and memorable things Trevor has
written." --"The Independent on Sunday" (U.K.)
This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the
sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the
psychological tricks they use to win it. Terry Williams and Trevor
B. Milton, two prominent sociologists and ethnographers, spent
years with New York con artists to uncover their secrets. The
result is an unprecedented view into how con games operate, whether
in back alleys and side streets or in police precincts and Wall
Street boiler rooms. Whether it's selling bootleg goods, playing
the numbers, squatting rent-free, scamming tourists with bogus
stories, selling knockoffs on Canal Street, or crafting Ponzi
schemes, con artists use verbal persuasion, physical misdirection,
and sheer charm to convince others to do what they want. Williams
and Milton examine this act of performance art and find meaning in
its methods to exact bounty from unsuspecting tourists and ordinary
New Yorkers alike. Through their sophisticated exploration of the
personal experiences and influences that create a successful
hustler, they build a portrait of unusual emotional and
psychological depth. Their work also offers a new take on structure
and opportunity, showing how the city's unique urban and social
architecture lends itself to the perfect con.
The stunning new novel from highly acclaimed author William Trevor is a brilliant, subtle, and moving story of love, guilt, and forgiveness. The Gault family leads a life of privilege in early 1920s Ireland, but the threat of violence leads the parents of nine-year-old Lucy to decide to leave for England, her mother's home. Lucy cannot bear the thought of leaving Lahardane, their country house with its beautiful land and nearby beach, and a dog she has befriended. On the day before they are to leave, Lucy runs away, hoping to convince her parents to stay. Instead, she sets off a series of tragic misunderstandings that affect all of Lahardane's inhabitants for the rest of their lives.
Title: Warblin's fro' an Owd Songster. With an introductory sketch
by W. Trevor. Illustrated.]Publisher: British Library, Historical
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Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and
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to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important
dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
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reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
William Trevor's stunning new collection of stories displays this
renowned craftsman at the peak of his powers. A middle-aged couple
meet in a theatre bar for a squalid blind date; a disappointed
priest fears an innocent young girl may run away from home; two
self-certain sisters visit a newly widowed local woman. From these
slender moments Trevor creates whole lives, conjuring up characters
marked by bitterness and loss. William Trevor's graceful prose is a
wonder in itself, and as convincing when inhabiting the mind of a
school lunchmaid, an adulterous Irish country librarian or a
murderer on the London streets. And as is always the case with
William Trevor, venom and tragedy are never far from the still
surface of the stories.
These stories, many of which first appeared in "The New Yorker, are
small masterpieces of observation from one of the most highly
acclaimed and beloved writers of the century.
"From the Hardcover edition.
His first collection since the bestselling After Rain, William Trevor's The Hill Bachelors is a heartbreaking book about men and women and their missed opportunities: four people live in a suburban house, frozen in a conspiracy of silence that prevents love's consummation; a nine-year-old dreams that a part in a movie will heal her fragmented family life; a brother and sister forge a new life amid the chaos of Ireland after the Rebellion; and in the title story, a young man chooses between his longtime love and a life of solitude on the family farm. These beautifully rendered tales reveal Trevor's compassion for the human condition and confirm once again his position as one of the premier writers of the short story.
*WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* *WINNER OF THE
SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD * From acclaimed author
William Trevor, Felicia's Journey is a tightly woven psychological
thriller 'A book so brilliant that it compels you to stay up all
night galloping through to the end' Daily Mail You're beautiful,
Johnny told her. So, full of hope, seventeen-year-old Felicia
crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she
is pregnant. Desperately searching for Johnny in the bleak
post-industrial Midlands, she is instead found by Mr Hilditch, a
strange and lonely man, a collector and befriender of homeless
young girls . . . 'Immensely readable. The plot twist is both
sinister and affecting, and so skilfully done that you remember why
authors had plot twists in the first place' Guardian Readers of The
Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer will adore Felicia's
Journey. It will also be cherished by readers of Colm Toibin and
William Boyd. William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork.
He has written eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short
stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the
Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the
Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature
Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002
he was knighted for his services to literature.
In the early morning of June the twenty-first, nineteen twenty-one,
three arsonists -- shadows in the night -- arrive at Lahardane, the
home of Captain Everard Gault, his wife, Heloise, and daughter,
Lucy. The sheepdogs that alarmed the Gaults of previous trespasses
had since been poisoned. On this occasion, though, it is a warning
shot fired above the silhouetted heads that sends them retreating,
saving the estate from being set ablaze. But blood speckles the
pebbles of the approach in the dawn's light, implying that the
Captain's single shot wounded one of the intruders.
Everard quickly learns the identity of the wounded -- a boy named
Horahan -- and thereafter sets to make amends. His apologies and
offers of restitution to the boy and his family are ineffective,
however, and the Gaults realize then that further defiance to
certain forthcoming attacks is senseless. "The past was the enemy
in Ireland," writes Trevor. Protestant property was the common
target in this time of insurrection and civil war, two years after
Sinn Fein declared Ireland independent, and the Gaults had obvious
British sympathies: Everard, a former British army officer;
Heloise, an English wife and mother; Lahardane, an ancestral Irish
property since the eighteenth century. It is too dangerous for them
to stay. They too must desert Ireland like so many families before
them.
Eight-year-old Lucy is never properly explained the danger of
staying at Laharadane. It is the only place she has known; a place
where the flow of streams around moss-covered stones, the bloom of
the apple orchard, the pull of the sea's tide, and the fishermen on
the shore are the very fabric of her being. So it is then, forlorn
and mournful, that Lucy decides to run away on the night before her
family's scheduled departure for England. However, when her parents
find an article of her clothing on the shore where she frequently
went swimming they fear the worst: that she has drowned.
Stricken by grief and remorse, devastated by guilt and blame,
Everard and Heloise regard the plans they have made and retreat
from Ireland. Windows are boarded, furniture is draped, and
Lahardane is left in the care of their servants, Henry and Bridget.
But almost as soon as the Gaults have left Henry finds Lucy --
alive, emaciated, her ankle broken and badly swollen -- in an
abandoned cottage in the woods. The Gaults, however, have forsaken
their intentions to relocate to England and have vanished into
Europe. The trail following them is less than cold, their
whereabouts critical yet unknown, and for thirty years this remains
as they sojourn through France, Switzerland and Italy.
Henry and Bridget resuscitate Lahardane and take up custodial care
of Lucy. As she matures, though, she also becomes more reclusive
and insular. Children in the village refuse to play with her. She
is stared at, spoken of in hushed tones and, over time, exiled. The
anguish over her parents' fate wanes as the myth of hers similarly
grows. She develops into a voracious reader and to a certain degree
lives her life vicariously through the characters that populate the
novels in her family's extensive library. It is by chance then that
at age twenty-four Lucy meets a man -- Ralph.
Ralph, a young Englishman, arrives in Ennisealea to work as a tutor
to the banker's sons for the summer. While on a drive,
familiarizing himself with the Irish countryside, he happens upon
Lahardane. Ralph and Lucy, upon meeting, are immediately enchanted
with one another and Ralph, after his departure, can't let a
thought pass through his mind that isn't of beautiful Lucy.
Properly, he is invited back to Lahardane, as those closest to Lucy
hold their breath and privately hope that Ralph will become her
future suitor. Sadly, those hopes are dashed. The end of summer
nears and so too does Ralph's tenure with the Ryalls, but not
before he pronounces his love for Lucy. Lucy's self-reproach for
the bisecting of her family weighs heavy, though. "She believed she
had no right to love until she felt forgiven," and thusly she
rejects Ralph's affection and proposal of marriage. His love
unrequited, Ralph returns to his English home and shortly
thereafter enters the war.
Guilt-laden, unbeknown to them that their daughter and home
persevere, Everard and Heloise live a life in exile on the
continent -- an exile both self-imposed and inflicted by
Mussolini's war. It's not until Heloise contracts influenza and
perishes that Everard resolves to return to Ireland and the home he
left behind three decades previous.
Arriving at Lahardane, the Captain is astonished to find the house
unsealed and tended. Yet he is more astonished to find Lucy alive;
the daughter he thought for deceased now a grown woman. But
Everard's return to a paternal relationship with Lucy is,
logically, strained. Moreover, he feels undeserved of anything
greater than the respect Henry and Bridget would extend to that of
a stranger, for it is their house now -- as it has been since he
entrusted it to their care with his exit in nineteen twenty-one --
and he is a phantasm. Still, Everard makes every effort to atone
for his absence, for an adolescence and adulthood choked by his
neglect, delinquency and taciturnity.
In the end, the forgiveness that Everard searches for is diminished
by his daughter's redemption: Lucy has forgiven the arsonist
wounded by his single shot. It was the young boy, Horahan, who
many, many years ago put the tragic sequence of events in their
lives into motion. But it is now the older man, after unrelenting
nightmares of successfully setting the Gault estate ablaze, killing
Lucy, who is driven to insanity.
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