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sun surfer · 12-08-2013, 01:03 PM

The discussion thread is now up.

Here is the list of stories from "My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories":

The Genius
My Oedipus Complex
First Confession
The Study of History
The Man of the World
Guests of the Nation
Machine-Gun Corps in action
Soirée Chez une Belle Jeune Fille
Jumbo's Wife
The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland
There is a Lone House
News for the Church
The Mad Lomasneys
Uprooted
The Majesty of the Law
The Luceys
After Fourteen Years
Peasants
The Bridal Night
A Thing of Nothing
Michael's Wife
A Bachelor's Story
Fish for Friday
A Story by Maupassant
In the Train
The Corkerys
Old-Age Pensioners
The Long Road to Ummera
The Wreath
The Mass Island

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem at first glance like it is the same book as "The Stories of Frank O'Connor", but I can't tell for certain. I can't find a complete list online of the stories in that collection, but Wikipedia claims it includes five new stories - "My Oedipus Complex", "My Da", "The Pretender", "First Love" and "Freedom". Of those, only one title matches with the list of titles in our monthly selection. Perhaps titles have changed though, but with 4/5 titles needing to have changed chances grow dimmer that it's the same book, although a glimmer of hope is that the two books do seem to be about the same length.

I also took a look at "The Best of Frank O'Connor" ebook and at first glance it seems a much longer and more complete work, at over 700 pages. Unfortunately, once I began to compare story titles, it seems less than half of our monthly selection stories are available in it (unless there are title changes).

If one is OK with paper anyway, there are used copies of My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories going for about $5 on Amazon U.S. ($1 plus $4 shipping). Otherwise, though one may not be able to read the entire collection from other different collections, it seems like one may be able to at least read a portion of them that way.

12-08-2013, 01:03 PM	#26
sun surfer languorous autodidact ✦ Posts: 4,235 Karma: 44667380 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: smiling with the rising sun Device: onyx boox poke 2 colour, kindle voyage	The discussion thread is now up. Here is the list of stories from "My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories": The Genius My Oedipus Complex First Confession The Study of History The Man of the World Guests of the Nation Machine-Gun Corps in action Soirée Chez une Belle Jeune Fille Jumbo's Wife The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland There is a Lone House News for the Church The Mad Lomasneys Uprooted The Majesty of the Law The Luceys After Fourteen Years Peasants The Bridal Night A Thing of Nothing Michael's Wife A Bachelor's Story Fish for Friday A Story by Maupassant In the Train The Corkerys Old-Age Pensioners The Long Road to Ummera The Wreath The Mass Island Unfortunately, it doesn't seem at first glance like it is the same book as "The Stories of Frank O'Connor", but I can't tell for certain. I can't find a complete list online of the stories in that collection, but Wikipedia claims it includes five new stories - "My Oedipus Complex", "My Da", "The Pretender", "First Love" and "Freedom". Of those, only one title matches with the list of titles in our monthly selection. Perhaps titles have changed though, but with 4/5 titles needing to have changed chances grow dimmer that it's the same book, although a glimmer of hope is that the two books do seem to be about the same length. I also took a look at "The Best of Frank O'Connor" ebook and at first glance it seems a much longer and more complete work, at over 700 pages. Unfortunately, once I began to compare story titles, it seems less than half of our monthly selection stories are available in it (unless there are title changes). If one is OK with paper anyway, there are used copies of My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories going for about $5 on Amazon U.S. ($1 plus $4 shipping). Otherwise, though one may not be able to read the entire collection from other different collections, it seems like one may be able to at least read a portion of them that way.