A modern classic -- a collection of tales about Dublin from an unsung master of the short story  * Never before published in the UK, Maeve Brennan's Dublin stories are unsung masterpieces.  * Brennan left her native Dublin for the States before she was twenty years old, in 1934, and for most of her life worked for the New Yorker, writing book reviews, fashion notes -- and these magnificent stories.  * The stories, set mainly in suburban, lower middle-class Dublin between the wars, are divided into 3 sections: the first set of stories are autobiographical childhood sketches; the second and third sections contain Brennan's masterpieces -- a series of tales about two families, the Derdons and the Bagots, and the disappointing, lonely marriages which lie at the heart of each family.  * Up there with the great short story writers -- Katherine Mansfield, Chekhov, George Mackay Brown, etc.

The Springs of Affection

Literature & Fiction

Maeve Brennan

Contemporary

Flamingo

<p>A modern classic -- a collection of tales about Dublin from an unsung master of the short story * Never before published in the UK, Maeve Brennan's Dublin stories are unsung masterpieces. * Brennan left her native Dublin for the States before she was twenty years old, in 1934, and for most of her life worked for the New Yorker, writing book reviews, fashion notes -- and these magnificent stories. * The stories, set mainly in suburban, lower middle-class Dublin between the wars, are divided into 3 sections: the first set of stories are autobiographical childhood sketches; the second and third sections contain Brennan's masterpieces -- a series of tales about two families, the Derdons and the Bagots, and the disappointing, lonely marriages which lie at the heart of each family. * Up there with the great short story writers -- Katherine Mansfield, Chekhov, George Mackay Brown, etc.</p>

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

The Long-winded Lady: Notes From The New Yorker

Bas Bleu

The Visitor

New Island

Literary

ATLANTIC BOOKS *

Peninsula Press

De rozentuin

Athenaeum

The Best American Short Stories 1969, Martha Foley and David Burnett, editors, Houghton Mifflin, 1969 first printing. 328 pages

Best American Short Stories: 1969

BERNARD MALAMUD

David Madden

Norma Klein

John Bart Gerald

Mark Costello

James Alan McPHERSON

Alistair MacLeod

Jack Cady

Mary Gray Hughes

Mary Josephine Lavin

Matthew W. McGregor

John R. Milton

Houghton/Mifflin

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