Complete stories / Peter Taylor ; Ann Beattie, editor.
Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994, author.; Beattie, Ann, editor.
2017
PS3539.A9633 C66 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Complete stories / Peter Taylor ; Ann Beattie, editor.
Author
Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994, author.
ISBN
9781598535426 (v. 1)
1598535420 (v. 1)
9781598535433 (v. 2)
1598535439 (v. 2)
1598535412
9781598535419
Published
New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2017]
Language
English
Description
2 volumes ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PS3539.A9633 C66 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.54
Summary
For the first time, the complete stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century South. Born and raised in Tennessee, Peter Taylor was the great chronicler of the American Upper South, capturing its gossip and secrets, its divided loyalties and morally complicated legacies in tales of pure-distilled brilliance. Now, for his centennial year, the Library of America and acclaimed short story writer Ann Beattie present an unprecedented two-volume edition of Taylor's complete short fiction, all fifty-nine of the stories published in his lifetime in the order in which they were composed. This first volume offers twenty-nine early masterpieces, including such classics as "A Spinster's Tale," "What You Hear from 'Em'," "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time" and "Miss Leonora When Last Seen." As a special feature, an appendix in the first volume gathers three stories Taylor published as an undergraduate that show the early emergence of his singular style and sensibility.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Added Author
Beattie, Ann, editor.
Holdings
v.1-v.2
Series
Library of America ; 298-299.
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[V. 1]. 1938-1959
[v. 2]. 1960-1992.

[V. 1.] Introduction by Ann Beattie
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
UNDERGRADUATE STORIES 1936-1939
The Party
The Lady Is Civilized
The Life Before.

[V. 2.] Introduction by Ann Beattie
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.

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