The Story of Samson by Patricia A Pingry

The Story of Samson by Patricia A Pingry

For the first time, the complete stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century South are available in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set.

Born and raised in Tennessee, Peter Taylor was the great chronicler of the American Upper South, capturing its gossip and secrets, its divided loyalties and morally complicated legacies in tales of pure-distilled brilliance. Now, for his centennial year, the Library of America and acclaimed short story writer Ann Beattie present an unprecedented two-volume edition of Taylor's complete short fiction, all fifty-nine of the stories published in his lifetime in the order in which they were composed.

Volume one offers twenty-nine early masterpieces, including such classics as A Spinster's Tale, What You Hear from 'Em?, Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time and Miss Leonora When Last Seen. As a special feature, an appendix in the first volume gathers three stories Taylor published as an undergraduate that show the early emergence of his singular style and sensibility.

Volume two presents thirty stories including many of his most ambitious works, among them Dean of Men, a monologue delivered by a middle-aged father to his long-haired son about the limits of idealism; In the Miro District, a parable of the Old South's enduring persistence in the New; and The Old Forest, one of Taylor's most celebrated works, the story of a young man who jeopardizes his
impending marriage by consorting with a girl deemed beneath his station. Here too are all five of Taylor's remarkable prose poems, stories in free verse that demonstrate that great fiction is, at its highest pitch, a line-by-line, image-by-image high-wire act. Two of the stories in this volume, A Cheerful Disposition and The Megalopolitans, are collected here for the first time.

Pingry, Patricia A.: - Patricia A. Pingry has written dozens of children's books and edited hundreds more. Among her best-known titles are the perennial bestsellers The Story of Christmas and The Story of Easter. Together these two titles have sold more than 2 million copies. Patricia lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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ISBN 13	9780824942267
ISBN 10	0824942264
Title	The Story of Samson
Author	Patricia A Pingry
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Worthy Publishing
Year published	2002-12-31
Number of pages	24
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