Complete stories / Peter Taylor ; Ann Beattie, editor.

Author/creator Taylor, Peter author.
Other author Beattie, Ann editor.
Format Book
PublicationNew York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2017]
Copyright Date©2017
Description2 volumes (xxx, 695; xxx, 703 pages) ; 21 cm.
Subjects
Short stories, American--20th century.

Variant title Peter Taylor complete stories
SeriesThe library of America ; 298-299
Library of America ; 298-299. ^A515081
Contents [V. 1]. 1938-1959 -- [v. 2]. 1960-1992.
Contents [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.
Contents [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.
Abstract 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
Genre/formShort stories.
Genre/formShort stories.
LCCN 2016959018 2017942065
ISBN9781598535433 (v. 2)
ISBN1598535439 (v. 2)
ISBN9781598535426 (v. 1)
ISBN1598535420 (v. 1)
ISBN1598535412
ISBN9781598535419

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Joyner General Stacks PS3539 .A9633 C66 2017 ✔ Available Place Hold