You'll enjoy it when you get there : the stories of Elizabeth Taylor selected and with an introduction

AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINALElizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the best English writers of the postwar period, prized and praised by Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel, among others. Inheriting Ivy Compton-Burnett’s uncanny sensitivity to the terrifying undercurrents that swirl beneath the apparent calm of respectable family life while showing a deep sympathy of her own for human loneliness, Taylor depicted dislocation with the unflinching presence of mind of Graham Greene. But for Taylor, unlike Greene, dislocation began not in distant climes but right at home. It is in the living room, playroom, and bedroom that Taylor stages her unforgettable dramas of alienation and impossible desire. Taylor’s stories, many of which originally appeared in __The New Yorker,__ are her central achievement. Here are self-improving spinsters and gossiping girls, war orphans and wallflowers, honeymooners and barmaids, mistresses and murderers. Margaret Drabble’s new selection reveals a writer whose wide sympathies and restless curiosity are matched by a steely penetration into the human heart and mind An NYRB Classics Original Nearly forty years after her death, Elizabeth Taylor is only beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the finest English writers of the postwar period, notwithstanding the praise she has received from writers as different as Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel. Inheriting Ivy Compton-Burnett's uncanny sensitivity to the terrifying undercurrents that swirl beneath the apparent calm of respectable family life while showing a deep sympathy of her own for human loneliness, Taylor depicted dislocation with the unflinching presence of mind of Graham Greene. For Taylor, however, unlike Greene, dislocation began not in distant climes but right at home. It is in the living room, playroom, and bedroom that Taylor stages her unforgettable dramas of alienation and impossible desire. In 2012, NYRB Classics reissued two of Taylor's finest novels, and The New York Times Book Review hailed the reemergence of this wonderful neglected author. Now, for the first time in more than a quarter century, Taylor's stories, in many ways the heart of her achievement, will be available to readers in the United States, presented in a revelatory new selection by Margaret Drabble. In Taylor's extensive body of short fiction, the bulk of which was originally taken by the legendary editor and writer William Maxwell for The New Yorker, her range of feeling and the power of her writing are evident as nowhere else AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Elizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the best English writers of the postwar period, prized and praised by Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel, among others. Inheriting Ivy Compton-Burnett’s uncanny sensitivity to the terrifying undercurrents that swirl beneath the apparent calm of respectable family life while showing a deep sympathy of her own for human loneliness, Taylor depicted dislocation with the unflinching presence of mind of Graham Greene. But for Taylor, unlike Greene, dislocation began not in distant climes but right at home. It is in the living room, playroom, and bedroom that Taylor stages her unforgettable dramas of alienation and impossible desire. Taylor’s stories, many of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, are her central achievement. Here are self-improving spinsters and gossiping girls, war orphans and wallflowers, honeymooners and barmaids, mistresses and murderers. Margaret Drabble’s new selection reveals a writer whose wide sympathies and restless curiosity are matched by a steely penetration into the human heart and mind Content: From Hester Lilly (1954) -- From The blush (1958) -- From A dedicated man (1965) -- From The devastating boys (1972). From: Hester Lilly (1954). Hester Lilly Gravement endommagé The idea of age Shadows of the world Oasis of gaiety Plenty good fiesta -- From: The blush (1958). The blush The letter-writers A troubled state of mind The rose, the mauve, the white Summer schools Perhaps a family failing You'll enjoy it when you get there -- From: A dedicated man (1965). Girl reading The Thames spread out The prerogative of love The benefactress In the sun Vron and Willie The voices -- From: The devastating boys (1972). The devastating boys Tall boy In and out of the houses Flesh Sisters Hôtel du Commerce Miss A. and Miss M. The fly-paper -- Published in Dangerous calm: the selected stories of Elizabeth Taylor (1995). Violet hour at the Fleece. Offers A Selection Of The Author's Short Stories That Often Deal With Everyday English Domestic Life And Its Nuanced Emotional Undercurrents. From Hester Lilly (1954) -- From The Blush (1958) -- From A Dedicated Man (1965) -- From The Devastating Boys (1972). Selected And With An Introduction By Margaret Drabble. Considered one of the best British writers of the post-war era, Taylor is only now beginning to gain the recognition due her. This collections offers a selection of the author's short stories that often deal with everyday English domestic life and its nuanced emotional undercurrents