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William Trevor (1928–2016)

Autor/a de The Story of Lucy Gault

115+ obres 12,121 Membres 284 Ressenyes 67 preferits

Sobre l'autor

William Trevor Cox was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland on May 24, 1928. He received a degree in history from Trinity College in 1950. Before becoming a full-time author in 1965, he worked as a sculptor, a teacher, and a copywriter at an advertising agency. He exhibited his sculptures in mostra'n més Dublin and England and was joint winner of the International Year of the Political Prisoner art competition in 1952. His first novel, A Standard of Behaviour, was published in 1958. His other novels include Other People's Worlds, Nights at the Alexandra, The Silence in the Garden, The Story of Lucy Gault, My House in Umbria, and Love and Summer. He won the Hawthornden Prize in 1964 for The Old Boys, the Whitbread Award in 1976 for The Children of Dynmouth, the Whitbread Award in 1983 for Fools of Fortune, and the Whitbread Award in 1994 for Felicia's Journey. His short story collections include The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories, The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories, Beyond the Pale, A Bit on the Side, Cheating at Canasta, and The Mark-2 Wife. The Hill Bachelors received the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Short Stories. He received the Allied Irish Banks' Prize in 1976, The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in 1992, the David Cohen British Literature Prize in 1999, and the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature in 2008. In 1977, he was awarded an honorary CBE in recognition of his services to literature. He died on November 20, 2016 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

Obres de William Trevor

The Story of Lucy Gault (2002) 1,710 exemplars
Felicia's Journey (1994) 1,201 exemplars
Love and Summer (2009) 918 exemplars
Collected Stories (1969) 713 exemplars
Fools of Fortune (1983) 589 exemplars
After Rain: Stories (1997) 581 exemplars
Cheating at Canasta: Stories (2007) 475 exemplars
Death in Summer (1998) 474 exemplars
A Bit on the Side (2004) 472 exemplars
The Children of Dynmouth (1976) 394 exemplars
The Hill Bachelors (2000) 321 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories (1989) — Editor — 240 exemplars
Selected Stories (2010) 239 exemplars
Last Stories (2018) 216 exemplars
The Silence in the Garden (1988) 205 exemplars
Other People's Worlds (1980) 155 exemplars
Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (1969) 154 exemplars
Nights at the Alexandra (1987) 137 exemplars
The Old Boys (1964) 130 exemplars
My House in Umbria (2000) 126 exemplars
The Stories of William Trevor (1983) 125 exemplars
Elizabeth Alone (1973) 123 exemplars
The Boarding House (1965) 120 exemplars
Bodily Secrets (2007) 106 exemplars
The Love Department (1600) 98 exemplars
Matilda's England (1995) 96 exemplars
Miss Gomez and the Brethren (1971) 92 exemplars
Reading Turgenev (1991) 82 exemplars
A Writer's Ireland (1984) 82 exemplars
Deadly Sins (1994) — Col·laborador — 82 exemplars
Ireland (1995) 80 exemplars
The Dressmaker's Child (2005) 74 exemplars
Family Sins and Other Stories (1990) 70 exemplars
Beyond the Pale & Other Stories (2010) 65 exemplars
The Mark-2 Wife (2011) 61 exemplars
Angels at the Ritz (1975) 58 exemplars
Juliet's Story (1991) 32 exemplars
The Day We Got Drunk on Cake (1967) 27 exemplars
A Standard of Behaviour (1958) 18 exemplars
Collected Stories: Volume Two (2009) 13 exemplars
Modern Short Stories 2: 1940-1980 (1982) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
The Distant Past (1979) 12 exemplars
Collected Stories: Volume One (2009) 11 exemplars
The Old Curiosity Shop [1979-1980 TV miniseries] (1979) — Screenwriter — 6 exemplars
Making Conversation (1995) 5 exemplars
Scenes from an album (1981) 5 exemplars
Geborgtes Glück (2008) 5 exemplars
Seitensprung: Erzählungen (2007) 4 exemplars
Going Home: A Play (1972) 4 exemplars
Penguin Modern Stories 8 (1971) 4 exemplars
Death of a professor (1997) 3 exemplars
The Women 1 exemplars
Dreaming 1 exemplars
Hôtel de la Lune oisive (2005) 1 exemplars
Mauvaises Nouvelles (2000) 1 exemplars
the dance master 1 exemplars
Balvégzet Bolondjai (1987) 1 exemplars
After rain 1 exemplars
Three early novels 1 exemplars
The summer visitor (2000) 1 exemplars
Faith [short story] 1 exemplars
Night with Mrs. Da Tanka (1972) 1 exemplars
Marrying Damian (1995) 1 exemplars
Low Sunday, 1950 (2000) 1 exemplars
Old school ties (1976) 1 exemplars
Trevor William 1 exemplars
За чертой 1 exemplars

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Orgull i prejudici (1813) — Introducció, algunes edicions78,383 exemplars
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A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement, Summer (1964) — Introducció, algunes edicions914 exemplars
Tots els contes (1945) — Editor — 867 exemplars
A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement, Winter (1976) — Introducció — 855 exemplars
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (2008) — Col·laborador — 752 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981) — Col·laborador — 504 exemplars
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Col·laborador — 454 exemplars
Birthday Stories (2002) — Col·laborador — 447 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1989) — Col·laborador — 423 exemplars
Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear (1995) — Col·laborador — 314 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (1994) — Col·laborador — 308 exemplars
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (2003) — Col·laborador — 293 exemplars
Bad Trips (1991) — Col·laborador — 231 exemplars
Nothing But You: Love Stories From The New Yorker (1997) — Col·laborador — 182 exemplars
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Col·laborador — 174 exemplars
First Folio: A Little Book of Folio Forewords (2008) — Col·laborador — 174 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Col·laborador — 150 exemplars
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (1997) — Col·laborador — 144 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories (1981) — Col·laborador — 128 exemplars
Great Irish Detective Stories (1993) — Col·laborador — 88 exemplars
The Treasury of English Short Stories (1985) — Col·laborador — 81 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Col·laborador — 74 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998) — Col·laborador — 73 exemplars
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005) — Col·laborador — 72 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996) — Col·laborador — 70 exemplars
Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (1999) — Col·laborador — 64 exemplars
Dark Arrows: Great Stories of Revenge (1985) — Col·laborador — 60 exemplars
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Col·laborador — 53 exemplars
The Guardian Review Book of Short Stories (2011) — Autor — 50 exemplars
My House in Umbria [2003 film] (2003) — Original novel — 45 exemplars
65 Great Murder Mysteries (1983) — Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
Great Irish Stories of the Supernatural (1992) — Col·laborador — 38 exemplars
Mothers and Daughters: An Anthology (1998) — Col·laborador — 32 exemplars
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Col·laborador — 32 exemplars
Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny (2001) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
The National Short Story Prize 2006 (2006) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories (2020) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Good Housekeeping Short Story Collection (1997) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Splinters (1968) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Best Short Stories 1991 (1991) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Felicia's Journey [1999 film] (2007) — Original book — 13 exemplars
Best Short Stories 1992 (1992) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
The Real Thing: Seven Stories About Love (1979) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Demons within, & other disturbing tales (1977) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Factions (1974) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Seven Deadly Sins: A Collection of New Fiction (1985) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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After recently reading Trevor's Collected Stories, I was impressed again at how good a writer he is. Understated, and understanding of the subtleties of Irish village life, this is a wonderful novel that traces what can happen when outside events occur to change ways of life that have existed for generations.
 
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ivanfranko | Hi ha 62 ressenyes més | Oct 30, 2023 |
All these stories are of the highest standard. Trevor knows how to tease out the emotion and the hidden root causes of his character's disappointments, dependence and resignation to fates that life brings. Whether it is a blighted childhood, the cruelty of one's village or deception by those with power, most of these stories cut to the personal impacts that the writer is so adept at examining.
There are so many stories (80 plus) that it's hard to imagine ever tiring from re-reading them.
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ivanfranko | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Oct 25, 2023 |
Although not a mystery writer in the usual sense, the late William Trevor was nevertheless a mystery writer. Each of the 10 stories in his final collection of short stories, “Last Stories,” is a little mystery, full of subtle clues that lead to a final resolution. Or don't. Sometimes the resolution, like the clues themselves, are so subtle readers may be left scratching their heads.

As in any good mystery, there is a lot of misdirection in Trevor's stories. Even the titles misdirect the reader. When the title refers to someone, the story is most often about someone else. "The Piano Teacher's Pupil," for example, is actually about the piano teacher, not the pupil. Once she had a lover who in time abandoned her, yet she treasures that time when he was hers. Now she has a student, more gifted than any other, who steals something each time he comes to her house. Yet she treasures having him as a pupil. Paradise comes at a price she's willing to pay.

"The Crippled Man," rather than being about the crippled man, is mostly about the woman who takes care of him, although it turns out that he is taking care of her.

In "The Unknown Girl," Trevor's focus falls on Harriet, a woman whose home this girl had sometimes cleaned before stepping into traffic and being killed. Gradually Harriet comes to realize that the girl's death may be related to her unrequited love for Harriet's son.

Trevor's stories are like paintings on which the artist adds a dab of paint here and a dab of paint there. Not until the final brushstroke does an observer realize what the painting reveals. At times he even refers to different characters in alternate sentences in the same paragraph, requiring careful reading (and rereading) to understand what exactly is going on.

His stories don't make easy reading, yet they are so tender, so beautiful, so delicate that they are all worth the effort.
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hardlyhardy | Hi ha 8 ressenyes més | Oct 20, 2023 |
I only had time to read a few of the stories in this collection, and I would have loved to have had more time with it (I had a library copy - and not much time...)
 
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jjbinkc | Hi ha 8 ressenyes més | Aug 27, 2023 |

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Obres
115
També de
49
Membres
12,121
Popularitat
#1,936
Valoració
½ 4.3
Ressenyes
284
ISBN
485
Llengües
18
Preferit
67

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