A Set of Variations

First edition (US)

A Set of Variations is a 1969 short story collection by Frank O'Connor.^[1] It was compiled shortly after the author's death by his widow, Harriet O'Donovan Sheehy, and includes the following stories:

A Set of Variations on a Borrowed Theme (alternate title: Variations on a Theme)
The American Wife
The Impossible Marriage
The Cheat
The Weeping Children
The Saint
A Minority
An Out-And-Out Free Gift
Anchors
Sue
Music When Soft Voices Die
A Life of Your Own
The Corkerys
A Story By Maupassant
A Great Man
The School For Wives
Androcles and the Army
Public Opinion
The Party
Achilles' Heel
Lost Fatherlands
The Wreath
The Teacher's Mass
The Martyr
Requiem
An Act of Charity
The Mass Island

A similar collection was published in the U.K. in 1969 as Collection Three. The stories included were slightly different, and Collection Three featured one story not included in A Set of Variations ("A Mother's Warning").^[2]

References

↑ Frank O’Connor. A Set of Variations. New York: Knopf, 1969.
↑ Frank O’Connor. Collection Three. London: Macmillan, 1969.

Works by Frank O'Connor

Short story collections	Guests of the Nation Bones of Contention Crab Apple Jelly The Common Chord Traveller's Samples The Stories of Frank O'Connor More Stories by Frank O'Connor Domestic Relations A Set of Variations The Cornet Player Who Betrayed Ireland The Collected Stories The Collar A Frank O'Connor Reader

Novels	The Saint and Mary Kate Dutch Interior

Autobiographies	An Only Child My Father's Son

Books	The Wild Bird's Nest Lament for Art O'Leary The Midnight Court Kings, Lords, and Commons The Little Monasteries The Big Fellow Irish Miles Leinster, Munster and Connaught The Road to Stratford Shakespeare's Progress The Mirror in the Roadway The Lonely Voice The Backward Look

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