William Trevor (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Though probably best known as a writer of short stories, William Trevor has also written television and radio scripts, plays, and numerous novels. Among Trevor’s novels, The Old Boys, Miss Gomez and the Brethren, Elizabeth Alone (1973), The Children of Dynmouth (1976), Fools of Fortune (1983), Felicia’s Journey (1994), and Death in Summer (1998) have been particularly praised. He has also written two nonfiction works, A Writer’s Ireland: Landscape in Literature (1984) and Excursions in the...

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