The legendary book about writing by the legendary writer is back!Frank Oâ€™Connor was one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s greatest short story writers, and one of Irelandâ€™s greatest authors ever. Now, Oâ€™Connorâ€™s influential and sought-after book on the short story is back.THE LONELY VOICE offers a master class with the master. With his sharp wit and straightforward prose, Oâ€™Connor not only discusses the techniques and challenges of a form in which "a whole lifetime must be crowded into a few minutes," but he also delves into a passionate consideration of his favorite writers and their greatest works, including Chekhov, Hemingway, Kipling, Joyce, and others.

The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story

Literature & Fiction

O'Connor, Frank

History & Criticism

Olympic Marketing Corp

A child's jealousy of his place in his mother's life erupts when his father comes home from the war, not to subside until a new baby arrives placing his father and him in the same position.

My Oedipus Complex

Irish Book Center

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's undivided attention, and finds himself in a constant struggle to win back her affections.

My Oedipus Complex And Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

Contemporary

Penguin Classics

Modern Irish Short Stories (World's Classics)

Oxford University Press

The most generous one-volume collection ever published of short stories, autobiographical writings,poetry, and essays by the writer Yeats called “Ireland’s Chekhov.”
Selected and arranged thematically by Julian Barnes, the rich mix of writings in The Best of Frank O’Connor starts off with his most famous short story, “Guests of the Nation,” set during the Irish War of Independence; chronicles his childhood with an alcoholic father and protective mother; and traces his literary influences in brilliant essays on Joyce and Yeats. O’Connor’s wonderfully polyphonic tales of family, friendship, and rivalry are set beside those that bring to life forgotten souls on the fringes of society. O’Connor’s writings about Ireland vividly evoke the land he called home, while other stories probe the hardships and rewards of Irish emigration. Finally, we see O’Connor grappling, in both fiction and memoir, with the largest questions of religion and belief.
The Best of Frank O’Connor is a literary monument to a truly great writer.

The Best of Frank O'Connor (Everyman's Library)

Everyman"s Library

In 1916, a young man named Michael Collins returned to his native Ireland, after ten years in voluntary exile in London, to join one of the most impassioned and complicated revolutions in history. Playfully nicknamed "The Big Fellow," Collins began to take a key role in the uprisings, eventually becoming a revered revolutionary leader. Acclaimed writer Frank O'Connor, a man who himself fought in the Irish Civil War, traces Collin's life from the day he returned to Dublin to the day a young Irish soldier shot him dead on a country road. The Big Fellow achieves a narrative both probing and poetic as it chronicles the life of a man so charismatic that he made people "aware of his presence even when he was not visible, through that uncomfortable magnetism of the very air, a tingling of the nerves."

The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Picador

A probing and poetic narrative chronicles the life of the Irish revolutionary leader from his return from voluntary exile until his untimely death at the age of thirty-one

The Big Fellow: Michael Collins & the Irish Revolution

Picador USA

The story of Frank O'Connor is that of a shy child from a Cork slum who becomes aware that there is something beyond the confines of his life and the lives around him, something grander. And with resolve and labor, he makes his way toward it. From his childhood to the time of his release from imprisonment as a revolutionary, O 'Connor conveys the moral fortune and the tragic elements of life, that sparked his storytelling-a life he describes as a "celebration of those who for me represented all I should ever know of God."

An Only Child

Pan Books, Ltd.

Fish For Friday and Other Stories from Collection Two

Fish for Friday and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Macmillan

Frank O'Connor, at twenty-three, comes out of the internment camp where he had been imprisoned as an Irish revolutionary, and plunges into the burgeoning intellectual-political ferment of Dublin in the 1920s. In this book, he re-creates his years as a young writer, providing as he does so a portrait of an era.

My Father's Son

Arts & Literature

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