Complete stories

Author(s)

• Taylor, Peter Hillsman
• Beattie, Ann

Bibliographic Information

Complete stories

Peter Taylor ; Ann Beattie, editor

（The library of America, 298-299）

Library of America, c2017

• 1938-1959
• 1960-1992

Note

Includes indexes

Contents of Works

• 1938-1959. A spinster's tale
• Cookie
• Sky line
• The fancy woman
• The school girl
• A walled garden
• Attendant evils
• Rain in the heart
• The scoutmaster
• Allegiance
• A long fourth
• Porte cochere
• A wife of Nashville
• Their losses
• Uncles
• Two ladies in retirement
• What you hear from 'Em?
• Bad dreams
• The dark walk
• 1939
• The other times
• Venus, Cupid, folly and time
• Promise of rain
• Je suis perdu
• A friend and protector
• Guests
• The little cousins
• Heads of houses
• Miss Leonora when last seen
• The party
• The lady is civilized
• The life before
• 1960-1992. Reservations : a love story
• Nerves
• An overwhelming question
• There
• Demons
• At the drugstore
• Two pilgrims
• The throughway
• At the art theater
• The end of play
• A cheerful disposition
• The decline and fall of the Episcopal Church in the year of our Lord 1952
• Mrs. Billingsby's wine
• The elect
• First heat
• In the waiting room
• Dean of men
• Daphne's lover
• The real ghost
• The instruction of a mistress
• The hand of Emmagene
• Three heroines
• The megalopolitans
• Her need
• The captain's son
• In the Miro District
• The old forest
• The gift of the prodigal
• The witch of Owl Mountain Springs : an account of her remarkable powers
• The oracle at Stoneleigh Court

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

1938-1959 ISBN 9781598535426

Description

In a career spanning over half a century, Peter Taylor explored in exquisite detail the dramas, large and small, of a Tennessee gentry struggling with the loss of the old certainties in an Old South becoming new. A winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Penn/Faulkner Award and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, he was, in the estimation of Anne Tyler, othe undisputed master of the short-story form. You could give a creative writing class with no other text but his stories and that class would come out fully educated.o Now, for his centennial year, Taylor joins fellow twentieth-century masters William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and John Updike in the Library of America series with an unprecedented two-volume edition of his complete short fiction. Edited by acclaimed writer Ann Beattie, it brings together for the first time all sixty of the stories that Taylor published during his professional career as writer, half of them restored to print for the first time in decades and five never before collected in book form. (This first volume includes, in an appendix, six previously uncollected early efforts.) Several of these works-including oVenus, Cupid, Folly, and Time,o oIn the Miro District,o and oThe Old Foresto-are anthology classics. All are masterly contributions to the literature of the South and the art of the American short story.

Volume

1960-1992 ISBN 9781598535433

Description

In a career spanning over half a century, Peter Taylor explored in exquisite detail the dramas, large and small, of a Tennessee gentry struggling with the loss of the old certainties in an Old South becoming new. A winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Penn/Faulkner Award and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, he was, in the estimation of Anne Tyler, othe undisputed master of the short-story form. You could give a creative writing class with no other text but his stories and that class would come out fully educated.o Now, for his centennial year, Taylor joins fellow twentieth-century masters William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and John Updike in the Library of America series an unprecedented two-volume edition of his complete short fiction. Edited by acclaimed writer Ann Beattie, it brings together for the first time all sixty of the stories that Taylor published during his professional career as writer, half of them restored to print for the first time in decades and five never before collected in book form. (This second volume, as a special feature, includes his remarks on accepting the Gold Medal in the Short Story from the American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters in 1978.) Several of these works-including oVenus, Cupid, Folly, and Time,o oIn the Miro District,o and oThe Old Foresto-are anthology classics. All are masterly contributions to the literature of the South and the art of the American short story.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB24876445
• ISBN:
  • 9781598535426
  • 9781598535433
• LCCN: 2017942065
• LCCN: 2016959018
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 813.54
  • NDC10 : 933.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Short stories, American -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Tennessee -- Fiction
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00080739