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Complete Stories 1938-1959 & 1960-1992 by Peter Taylor
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Overview: For the first time, the complete stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century South.

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.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > American > Southern > Short Stories



Complete Stories 1938–1959:
This first volume includes twenty-nine stories written from 1938, when the author was twenty-one, to 1959, when he was forty-two, a period when Taylor wrote with special sensitivity about the domestic reverberations of social changes besetting the Upper South. As Ann Beattie observes in her introduction, “Taylor never flinches when presenting encounters between whites and blacks—whether affectionate, indifferent, or unkind—and dramatizes them forthrightly.” “Cookie” and “A Wife of Nashville” are among several stories concerning a white employer and a black servant, each by turn the other’s friend, protector, and exploiter. Other stories, such as the frequently anthologized “A Spinster’s Tale” and “The Fancy Woman,” are about women and the sometimes extreme measures they must take in order to negotiate a male-dominated world.

“Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time,” an unsettling Southern Gothic tale of a brother and sister that becomes an allegory of the perverse tenacity of class illusions, remains one of Taylor’s most celebrated works. Taylor considered it, along with “Miss Leonora When Last Seen,” a haunting meditation on the competing claims of history and community, to be among his finest stories. Also included in an appendix are three precocious undergraduate efforts that show the early emergence of Taylor’s singular style and sensibility.

Complete Stories 1960-1992:
This second volume of the Library of America edition of Peter Taylor’s complete short fiction presents thirty stories written from 1960, when the author was forty-three, to 1992, when he was seventy-five. They include many of his most ambitious works, including “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,” which concerns the contentious relationship of an ascetic grandfather and his libertine grandson, is a parable of the Old South’s enduring persistence in the New. “The Old Forest,” one of Taylor’s most celebrated works, is the story of a young man who jeopardizes his impending marriage by consorting with a girl deemed beneath his station, precipitating, in Taylor’s words, “a struggle of women for power among themselves.” 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, “A Cheerful Disposition” and “The Megalopolitans,” are collected here for the first time.

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