John O’Hara (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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John O’Hara was a prolific writer of short stories, and eleven volumes of stories were published during his lifetime. After O’Hara’s death, Random House, his publisher since 1947, brought out two additional collections: The Time Element and Other Stories (1972) and Good Samaritan and Other Stories (1974). Scattered throughout the short-story collections are most of O’Hara’s works in the novella form; the only novellas to be separately published are the three in Sermons and Soda Water. The play version of the story “Pal...

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