Selected Stories of Sean O'Faolain

Boston, MA: Little, Brown. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1978. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0316632856 . This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has spots of rubbing and wear. There is one scrape with beginning tearing to the front spine joint of the dust jacket. "He wrote his first stories in the 1920s, eventually completing 90 stories over a period of 60 years. From 1929 to 1933 he lectured at the Catholic college, St Mary's College, at Strawberry Hill in Middlesex, England, during which period he wrote his first two books. His first book, "Midsummer Night Madness," was published in 1932: it was a collection of stories partly based on his Civil War experiences. He afterwards returned to his native Ireland. He published novels; short stories; biographies; travel books; translations; literary criticism—including one of the rare full-length studies of the short story: The Short Story (1948). He also wrote a cultural history, The Irish, in 1947. " (from Wikipedia) .