William Trevor Books

The Collected Stories - a stunning volume of William Trevor's unforgettable short storiesWilliam Trevor is one of the most renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is a collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the penetrating 'Memories of Youghal' to the bittersweet 'Bodily Secrets' and the elegiac 'Two More Gallants', here are masterpieces of insight, depth, drama and humanity, acutely rendered by a modern master.'A textbook for anyone who ever wanted to write a story, and a treasure for anyone who loves to read them' Madison Smartt Bell'Extraordinary... Mr. Trevor's sheer intensity of entry into the lives of his people...proceeds to uncover new layers of yearning and pain, new angles of vision and credible thought' The New York Times Book Review

Featuring 48 masterfully crafted tales, this collection showcases the profound insights into the human condition that define the author's work. Celebrated as a leading contemporary short story writer, the stories explore a range of themes and emotions, offering readers a rich tapestry of experiences. Each narrative is a testament to the author's skill in capturing the complexities of life, making this anthology a significant contribution to the genre.

A new collection of nineteen stories--originally published in The Collected Stories and After the Rain--explores the complexities of rural and middle-class Irish life, capturing the people and their love, faith, duty, and survival in a culture that blends transformation with tradition. Original.

A collection of short stories by the author of "The Silence in the Garden", "Nights at the Alexandra", "Juliet's Story", "Fools of Fortune", "Two Lives" and "The Old Boys".

After nineteen years of marriage, three children and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go to hospital for an emergency operation. From her hospital bed she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly it doesn't look very edifying: there's the 17 year old daughter who's run off to a commune with her boyfriend; an old hopeless suitor who continues to press his claims; and of course the memory of the havoc she caused by the affair. No doubt she could put her life back in order. But need that involve all those people who cause her so much heartache?

"There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world."—Wall Street Journal Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor. In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas; and a heartbroken woman traveling alone in Italy who experiences an epiphany while studying a forgotten artist's Annunciation. Trevor is, in his own words, "a storyteller. My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so." Conscious or not, he touches us in ways that few writers even dare to try. Trevor wrote eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.

In Ireland what began as both entertainment and communication through the spoken word grew into a literary form unmatched by any other country.The Oxford Book of Irish Short Storiestriumphantly demonstrates that development, from early folk tales of the oral tradition (here translated from the Irish) through Oliver Goldsmith, Maria Edgeworth, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Joyce Cary to Elizabeth Bowen, Liam O'Flaherty and such rising stars of today as Edna O'Brian and Desmond Hogan. William Trevor, himself a distinguished short story writer, brings a special sensibility and awareness to his role as editor. This wide-ranging collection of forty-six stories will certainly serve to entertain and enrich our understanding of a unique literary genre.

It�s summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn�t go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs Connulty�s funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn't know that the Connultys were said to own half the town; and, in any case, he had come to Rathmoye only to see the scorched remains of the cinema. But Mrs Connulty's daughter, liberated at last by the death of her imperious mother, resolves to keep an eye on Florian Kilderry, and it's she who comes to witness the events that follow. A few miles out in the country a farmer called Dillahan lives with the knowledge that he was accidentally responsible for the deaths of his wife and baby. He has married again: Ellie is the young convent girl who came to work for him when he was widowed. But she falls in love with Florian and though he plans to leave Ireland, a dangerously reckless attachment develops between them . In a characteristically masterly way Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations felt by Ellie and Florian, and by the people of a small Irish town during one long summer.

Three people are frozen in a conspiracy of silence that prevents love's consummation; a nine-year-old dreams that a movie part heals her fragmented family life; a brother and sister forge a new life amid terrible beauty of Ireland after Rebellion; and in title story, a man chooses between his longtime love and a life of solitude on family farm. schovat popis

Two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred. In �Reading Turgenev�, which was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man. But she finds unusual solace � in secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels � The second story, �My House in Umbria� tells how romantic novelist Emily Delahunty helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a train and invents colourful pasts for her convalescent patients.

The Children Of Dynmouth - a classic prize-winning novel by William Trevor Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. The 1970s was a decade of anger and discontent. Britain endured power cuts and strikes. America pulled out of Vietnam and saw its President resign from office. Feminism and face lifts vied for women's hearts (and minds). And for many, prog rock, punk and disco weren't just music but ways of life. William Trevor's The Children of Dynmouth (Winner of the Whitbread Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) was first published in 1976 and is a classic account of evil lurking in the most unlikely places. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realise the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late.

The beloved and acclaimed William Trevor's last ten stories With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered tales--nine of which have never been published in book form--that illuminate the human condition and will surely linger in the reader's mind long after closing the book. Subtle yet powerful, Trevor gives us insights into the lives of ordinary people. We encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchange for his beautiful music. This final and special collection is a gift to lovers of literature and Trevor's many admirers, and affirms his place as one of the world's greatest storytellers.

These three short stories add up to a whole. Set before, during and after World War II, they form a biography of Matilda, third child of a farmer and his wife. She grows up in the shadow of Challacombe, which, in the end, dominates her life and dictates her fate, and represents much more.

Irishman William Quinton falls in love and has a brief love affair with his beautiful English cousin, in a story of love, revenge, and violence set against the turbulent relationship between England and Ireland.

Timothy Gedge, an awkward and lonely teenager, explores the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, developing a troubling fascination with the adults' lives. They only recognize the sinister intentions behind his curiosity when it's too late.

"Cheating at Canasta" is the title story of Trevor's new collection, his first since the highly acclaimed "A Bit on the Side." This work of short stories explores the themes of missed opportunities, the inevitability of change, and the powerful but fragmentary quality of memories.

A title in which, a waiter divulges a shocking life of crime to his ex-wife; a woman repeats the story of her parents' unstable marriage after a horrible tragedy; a schoolgirl regrets gossiping about the cuckolded man who tutors her; and, a middle-aged accountant offers his reasons for ending a love affair.

A New York Times Bestselling Author The Gault family leads a life of privilege in early 1920s Ireland, but the threat of arson leads the parents of nine-year-old Lucy to leave Ireland for England, her mother's home. Lucy cannot bear the thought of leaving Lahardane, their country house with its beautiful land and nearby beach, and a dog she has befriended. On the day before they are due to leave, Lucy runs away, hoping to convince her parents to stay. Instead, she sets off a series of tragic misunderstandings that affect all of the inhabitants of Lahardane and the perpetrators of the failed arson attack for the rest of their lives.

'There were ten million lonely women in England Lady Delores said, and most of them were married.'Regal Lady Dolores ran the offices of the Love Department with a firm, bejewelled hand, resolving the heartaches of the lonely wives of Wimbledon with inimitable flourish and finesse.

Recognized as one of the greatest living writers of the short story, William Trevor added "bestselling novelist" to his numerous accolades with the publication of Felicia's Journey. Death in Summer, a morally astute and emotionally resonant novel, again shows Trevor at the top of his form.There were three deaths that summer. Letitia went first, leaving her husband, Thaddeus, to relive their final, petty argument and to cope with raising their baby alone. The next death came after Thaddeus's mother-in-law moved into his country house. And finally, after the household seemed to settle down, an unwelcome guest appeared, heralding the third and last of the summer tragedies.

A pregnant young woman leaves her small Irish town to search for her boyfriend in the English Midlands.

It's the late 1950s, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs Connulty's funeral.

William Trevor has been acclaimed as the greatest contemporary writer of short stories in the English language, likened to Chekhov for his insights into human nature. These three tales of obsession, heartbreak, silent sorrow and the small tragedies of ordinary lives are profound, immaculate and beautiful.

This collection looks at the years of innocence, the pains and pleasures of schooldays and the struggles of adolescence in stories by such writers as Seamus Heaney, Roddy Doyle, Flann O'Brien, William Trevor, Bryan MacMahon, Samuel Beckett, Neil Jordan, Sean O'Faolain, Edna O'Brien, Brian Friel, Maeve Binchy, Brendan Behan and many more.

Trevors erzählerisches Werk ist so umfangreich wie vielschichtig. Hanns Zischler kennt und verehrt den großen irischen Schriftsteller seit Langem und hat die schönsten Erzählungen in diesem Band zusammengestellt und mit einem Nachwort versehen. Oft erzählt Trevor Begebenheiten aus dem Leben ganz normaler Menschen: von Einsamkeit und verpassten Chancen, von der Allmacht des Schicksals und dem kleinen Glück. Der große irische Schriftsteller, der schon lange als der »unangefochtene Meister der Short Story« gilt (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), liebt die leisen Töne; er hat die Gabe, mit einigen wenigen Strichen große Geschichten zu entwerfen. Trevors Erzählungen sind nicht allein deshalb immer wieder beglückend, weil aus ihnen Lebensweisheit und Klugheit spricht, sondern weil sie zutiefst menschlich sind.

Mary Louise Dallon ist jung und hat Angst, auf dem Bauernhof ihrer Eltern zu versauern. Und so kann sie den scheinbaren Reizen der nahegelegenen Kleinstadt und dem Werben des viel älteren Textilhändlers Elmer Quarry nicht widerstehen. Doch statt eines abwechslungsreichen, erfüllten Lebens in der Stadt erwarten sie Feindseligkeit und Desinteresse. Ein Lichtblick für kurze Zeit ist ihr kränklicher, melancholischer Cousin Robert, der ihr seine Leidenschaft für Literatur näherbringt. Bei ihren heimlichen Treffen lesen sie gemeinsam Turgenjew und werden zu Verbündeten. Als Robert stirbt, zieht Marie sich vollkommen zurück und lebt fortan in einer Welt aus Phantasien und Erinnerungen. Bis sie eines Tages einen letzten Ausbruchsversuch wagt. Einfühlsam und zart erzählt Trevor von Liebe und Verlust.

De zeventienjarige Felicia steekt hoopvol de Ierse Zee over om in Engeland haar geliefde op te sporen en hem te vertellen dat ze in verwachting is. Tijdens haar zoektocht in de desolate setting van de industriële Midlands slaagt Felicia er niet in om Johnny te vinden. De enige met wie ze in contact komt, is meneer Hilditch. Hij belooft haar te helpen, zoals hij wel meer dakloze meisjes geholpen heeft. Weerloos als ze is, biedt Felicia geen weerstand aan zijn gastvrijheid. Met huiveringwekkende precisie beschrijft William Trevor de nachtmerrie die zich vervolgens voltrekt.

Emily Delahunty, eine Frau in ihren Fünfzigern, hat durch ihre reiche Erfahrung mit den dunklen Seiten des Lebens eine Leidenschaft für Liebesromane und die Sehnsucht nach Idylle entwickelt. In der beeindruckenden umbrischen Landschaft erzählt William Trevor, wie sich abgründige Leben in Geschichten und umgekehrt verwandeln. Nach einer bewegten Vergangenheit lebt Mrs. Delahunty mit ihrem exzentrischen Partner Quinty in einem Landhaus in Umbrien. Früher als „Madame“ im Bordell „Café Rose“ in Ombubu tätig, ist sie nun eine gefeierte Autorin von Liebesromanen. Im Sommer, wenn die Hotels überfüllt sind, nehmen sie Gäste in ihrem Haus auf. Auf einer Zugfahrt nach Mailand wird Mrs. Delahunty Opfer eines Bombenanschlags, während sie über ihren neuen Roman „Ein Meer von Tränen“ nachdenkt. Im Krankenhaus trifft sie die anderen Überlebenden: Aimée, ein amerikanisches Mädchen, Otmar, einen jungen Deutschen, und einen englischen General. Sie lädt die drei zur Rekonvaleszenz in ihr Haus ein. Angesichts der Unerklärlichkeit des Attentats entwickelt sie ihre eigene Version der Ereignisse. Realität vermischt sich mit Träumen und Romanen, bis Aimées Onkel in ihre Träume eindringt. Trevors Werk bleibt in Deutschland weitgehend unbekannt, was unverständlich ist.

Vor vier Jahren saß Mallory noch gemeinsam mit seiner Frau in Harrys Bar in Venedig. Inzwischen ist ihre Krankheit so weit vorangeschritten, dass sie ihn zuweilen nicht einmal mehr erkennt. Die einzige Brücke zwischen ihnen ist das Canasta-Spiel, bei dem er sie absichtlich gewinnen lässt, um ihr einen Augenblick des Glücks zu bescheren. Es sind Momentaufnahmen wie diese, die William Trevor immer wieder auf unvergleichliche Weise einzufangen versteht. Dabei stellt er die unterschiedlichsten Menschen in den Mittelpunkt seiner Erzählungen. Mal sind es Halbstarke, die in ihrem Geltungswahn jedes Maß verlieren, mal zwei Erwachsene, die es für eine gute Idee halten, eine Patchworkfamilie zu gründen, aber an ihren Kindern scheitern; dann wieder gerät eine alte Frau in einen quälenden Konflikt, weil sie gegen den Willen ihres sterbenden Mannes dem Wunsch ihrer Nachkommen zustimmt, Heim und Hof zu verkaufen. Ob es um Liebe, Familie, Tod oder den Widerstreit zwischen Tradition und Moderne geht: Stets erzählt Trevor in seinen tief bewegenden Geschichten über die Zerbrechlichkeit des Glücks. „Der unangefochtene Meister der Short Story.“ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung „Ein souveräner Erzähler und Stilist.“ Süddeutsche Zeitung

Una donna non più giovane cerca marito in una sala da ballo.Un ragazzo che ha appena perso il padre ne scopre i segreti in un albergo di Dublino.Un giovanotto di campagna sposa la ragazza dei suoi sogni in seguito a una misteriosa gravidanza.Tre storie irlandesi animate da una malinconica tensione, mentre la vita scorre in queste esistenze all'apparenza ordinarie.

Deset krátkých próz je průřezem autorovou povídkovou tvorbou a jejími nejčastějšími náměty ze života v Irsku a v Anglii, s dětskými i dospělými hrdiny, jejichž společným údělem je osamění. Autor hledá příčinu bídy a smutku moderního člověka a nalézá ji v selhání v oblasti morálky, lásky a výchovy potomků. Z různých anglických originálů vybral a uspořádal Miloš Urban, doslov „Nevšední povídky o všedním životě“ napsal Ladislav Nagy.

Po stáročia sa v Írsku pestovala tradícia „seanchaí“ – rozprávanie pri kozube. Nečudo, že poviedka zaujíma v írskej literatúre popredné miesto. William Trevor je uznávaný majster poviedky. Jeho príbehy nás zväčša uvádzajú do sveta tých, ktorým sa v živote príliš nedarí, ktorých sprevádza samota, nedostatok lásky či neúspech. Hrdinovia jeho príbehov sa často nevedia brániť proti nástrahám dnešného sveta a v súboji s bezohľadnosťou neraz prichádzajú o svoje šťastie. Ich životné osudy bývajú naplnené smútkom či melanchóliou, dýcha z nich však iskierka nádeje i láskavé pochopenie autora.

Goticky hororový, v morálním poselství aktuální temný příběh o duševně vyšinutém patnáctiletém chlapci, kterému se podaří získat moc nad přímořským městečkem, na první pohled zcela idylickým.

Po stáročia sa v Írsku pestovala tradícia „seanchaí“ – rozprávanie pri kozube. Nečudo, že poviedka zaujíma v írskej literatúre popredné miesto. William Trevor je uznávaný majster poviedky. Jeho príbehy nás zväčša uvádzajú do sveta tých, ktorým sa v živote príliš nedarí, ktorých sprevádza samota, nedostatok lásky či neúspech. Hrdinovia jeho príbehov sa často nevedia brániť proti nástrahám dnešného sveta a v súboji s bezohľadnosťou neraz prichádzajú o svoje šťastie. Ich životné osudy bývajú naplnené smútkom či melanchóliou, dýcha z nich však iskierka nádeje i láskavé pochopenie autora.

Výbor z povídkové tvorby irského spisovatele, který je v tomto žánru právoplatným nástupcem svého krajana Jamese Joyce a jeho slavných Dubliňanů. Vychází z irské lidové vypravěčské tradice a přetváří ji po svém.