Fitz-James O'Brien: Short Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0692965904
- ISBN-13
- 9780692965900
- Series
- Fitz-James O'Brien
- Pages
- 498
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-12-17
- Publisher
- Bit O'Irish Press
- Author
- Fitz James O'Brien
Description
For the first time, all the major writings of Fitz-James O'Brien will be published in a multi-volume edition. This is an important publishing event, making the writings of this long-lost nineteenth-century Irish-American writer available to the public in a uniform and scholarly edition. Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) came to the United States from Ireland in 1852 looking to make his way in the literary world. With impressive recommendations in hand, he had no trouble finding work and immediately started editing and publishing stories and poetry, along with other things, in some of the most influential magazines of the day. When the Civil War began, he joined the Union army and was fatally wounded in 1862. H.P. Lovecraft said of O'Brien, in his important survey of supernatural literature, Supernatural Horror in Literature, "O'Brien's early death undoubtedly deprived us of some masterful tales of strangeness and terror." O'Brien is one of the most important American writers in between the first and the second half of the nineteenth-century. His short stories follow the same natural and supernatural horror, philosophical observations of human nature, and social criticisms as those of the great American triumvirate - Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe. It was Poe that had a particularly strong influence on his writing, but the influence of all three of these writers can be seen in his stories. This is the second volume of an anticipated five-volume edition of The Collected Writings of Fitz-James O'Brien. This volume will comprise all his short stories from the periods 1856 through 1862. For the introduction of these volumes, William Winter's sketch of O'Brien (the introduction of the first collected edition of his works) has been included. Volume One will include all his short stories from the periods 1851 through 1855. Volume Three will include his major poetry, the story "The Phantom Light" and his highly successful play, "A Gentleman from Ireland." Volume Four will include his major essays and journalism, including the complete "The Man About Town" series. And Volume Five will include all biographical material about O'Brien. A Bit O'Irish Press is pleased to offer the writings of this important Irish-American writer of supernatural and weird fiction.
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