Crab Apple Jelly

This article is about the 1944 Frank O'Connor anthology. For jellies and jams made from crabapples, see apple sauce.

First UK edition

Crab Apple Jelly is a 1944 short story collection by Frank O'Connor.^[1] It includes the following stories:

The Bridal Night
Old Fellows
The Grand Vizier's Daughters
Song Without Words
'The Star That Bids The Shepherd Fold' (alternate title: The Shepherds)
The Long Road to Ummera
The Miser
The House That Johnny Built
The New Teacher (alternate title: The Cheapjack)
The Luceys
Uprooted
The Mad Lomasneys

According to critic Richard Ellmann, "crab apple jelly" was O'Connor's description of the "sweet and tart mixture" he aimed for in his work generally. Ellmann adds, "[O'Connor's] best stories stir those facial muscles which, we are told, are the same for both laughing and weeping."^[2]

References

↑ Frank O’Connor (1944). Crab Apple Jelly. Knopf. London: Macmillan. New York.
↑ Richard Ellmann. Introduction to Collected Stories, by Frank O'Connor. New York: Vintage, 1982. vii.

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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