William Trevor | Short Stories

‘My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.’

William Trevor

The Collected Stories

  1. A Meeting in Middle Age
  2. Access to the Children
  3. The General’s Day
  4. Memories of Youghal
  5. The Table
  6. A School Story
  7. The Penthouse Apartment
  8. In at the Birth
  9. The Introspections of J. P. Powers
  10. The Day We Got Drunk on Cake
  11. Miss Smith
  12. The Hotel of the Idle Moon
  13. Nice Day at School
  14. The Original Sins of Edward Tripp
  15. The Forty-seventh Saturday
  16. The Ballroom of Romance
  17. A Happy Family
  18. The Grass Widows
  19. The Mark-2 Wife
  20. An Evening with John Joe Dempsey
  21. Kinkies
  22. Going Home
  23. A Choice of Butchers
  24. O Fat White Woman
  25. Raymond Bamber and Mrs Fitch
  26. The Distant Past
  27. In Isfahan
  28. Angels at the Ritz
  29. The Death of Peggy Meehan
  30. Mrs Silly
  31. A Complicated Nature
  32. Teresa’s Wedding Office Romances
  33. Mr McNamara
  34. Afternoon Dancing
  35. Last Wishes
  36. Mrs Acland’s Ghosts
  37. Another Christmas
  38. Broken Homes
  39. Matilda’s England 1. The Tennis Court 2. The Summer-house 3. The Drawing-room
  40. Torridge
  41. Death in Jerusalem
  42. Lovers in Their Time
  43. The Raising of Elvira Tremlett
  44. Flights of Fancy
  45. Attracta
  46. A Dream of Butterflies
  47. The Bedroom Eyes of Mrs Vansittart
  48. Downstairs at Fitzgerald’s
  49. Mulvihill’s Memorial
  50. Beyond the Pale
  51. The Blue Dress
  52. The Teddy-bear’s Picnic
  53. The Time of the Year
  54. Being Stolen From
  55. Mr Tennyson
  56. Autumn Sunshine
  57. Sunday Drinks
  58. The Paradise Lounge
  59. Mags
  60. The News from Ireland
  61. On the Zattere
  62. The Wedding in the Garden
  63. Lunch in Winter
  64. The Property of Colette Nervi
  65. Running Away
  66. Cocktails at Doney’s
  67. His Mother’s Daughter
  68. Bodily Secrets
  69. Two More Gallants
  70. The Smoke Trees of San Pietro
  71. Virgins
  72. Music
  73. Events at Drimaghleen
  74. Family Sins
  75. A Trinity
  76. The Third Party
  77. Honeymoon in Tramoor
  78. The Printmaker
  79. In Love with Ariadne
  80. A Husband’s Return
  81. Coffee with Oliver
  82. August Saturday
  83. Children of the Headmaster
  84. Kathleen’s Field
Title: The Collected Stories
Author: William Trevor
ISBN: 9780140158571
Imprint: The Bodley Head
Published: 1993 (originally published 1992)
Format: paperback
Pages: 1263
Purchased: 20 December 1995, Sydney

Selected Stories

  1. The Piano Tuner’s Wives
  2. A Friendship
  3. Timothy’s Birthday
  4. Child’s Play
  5. A Bit of Business
  6. After Rain
  7. Widows
  8. Gilbert’s Mother
  9. The Potato Dealer
  10. Lost Ground
  11. A Day
  12. Marrying Damian
  13. Three People
  14. Of the Cloth
  15. Good News
  16. The Mourning
  17. A Friend in the Trade
  18. Low Sunday, 1950
  19. Le Visiteur
  20. The Virgin’s Gift
  21. Death of a Professor
  22. Against the Odds
  23. The Telephone Game
  24. The Hill Bachelors
  25. Sitting with the Dead
  26. Traditions
  27. Justina’s Priest
  28. An Evening Out
  29. Graillis’s Legacy
  30. Solitude
  31. Sacred Statues
  32. Rose Wept
  33. Big Bucks
  34. On the Streets
  35. The Dancing-Master’s Music
  36. A Bit on the Side
  37. The Dressmaker’s Child
  38. The Room
  39. Men of Ireland
  40. Cheating at Canasta
  41. Bravado
  42. An Afternoon
  43. At Olivehill
  44. A Perfect Relationship
  45. The Children
  46. Old Flame
  47. Faith
  48. Folie à Deux
Title: Selected Stories
Author: William Trevor
ISBN: 9780143115960
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 2011 (originally published 2009)
Format: paperback
Pages: 567
Purchased: 2016, Balmain