The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland (Penguin Mini Modern Classics)

by Frank O ' Connor (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $11.52

  'Father', I said, feeling I might as well get it over while I had him in a good humour, 'I had it all arranged to kill my grandmother'. Praised as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor was a modern master of the short story. From an amateur brass band divided by partisanship to English soldiers who befriend their Irish captors, and from a child's comic confession to the end of a small-town friendship, these four humorous and tragic stories refract universal truths through the prism of 20th-century Ireland. This book contains The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland , Guests of the Nation , A Story by Maupassant , and First Confession .