Peter Taylor: The Complete Stories: A Library of America Boxed Set (The Library of America)

Library of America, 2017. Hardcover. As New/As New. 5x2x8. Two Volumes: 1938- 1959 and 1960-1992. Boxed set As New. Edited and introduced by Ann Beattie, these volumes bring together for the first time all 59 stories Peter Taylor (1917-1994) published in his lifetime. He was an American novelist, short-story writer and playwright who wrote about the American South. Fine tan linen binding with gilt-bordered red title panel on spine, tan ribbon page marker, sewn binding. Taylor's stories transform the tragedies and triumphs of his mid-century Southerners into timeless, universal fiction, in the manner of Chekhov or Henry James. He writes unflinching about social change in the South, encounters between blacks and whites, white employers and black servants, women and the extreme measures that had to take in male-dominated world, class illusions, the Old South, etc. 1650 pages. 8.25 x 5.25 inches. Library of America, 2017.