Query, perhaps fantasyfan can help, but I'm sure I can work it out.
I went to the library this morning to get
Collected Stories by Frank O'Connor, as I didn't see an entry for
My Oedipus Complex. I have the following list of stories from that: "The Genius", "My Oedipus Complex", "The Study of History", "First Confession", "The Duke's Children", "First Love", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Bridal Night" and "The Miser". (If that's not the complete list, I hope someone will supply the missing titles.)
In checking
Collected Stories, however, it seems to be missing "The Genius," "The Duke's Children" and "The Miser." In his introduction, Richard Ellison says some stories were renamed, but doesn't say which ones. So my first question is whether any of these three were renamed.
On looking into it, I see there is a collection called
The Stories of Frank O'Connor with the same publication date (1952) as
My Oedipus Complex and containing the title story. I assume that it was renamed for the American market to spare our tender sensibilities. The library also has that and I can go back if the three missing stories aren't in
Collected Stories.
Why can't books just have one title? /rant
While I was in the library, I picked up a couple of other books from this list. I rather regretted At Swim-Two-Birds when I saw on the cover the following quote from Dylan Thomas:
Quote:
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This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl!
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ETA:I hadn't seen Hamlet53's post when I posted. For the Americans, the collection called
The Stories of Frank O'Connor is the one we want. And
not Stories by Frank O'Connor (1956), either.