The complete online text of Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories by William Carleton.

William Carleton was a storyteller first and last. Unlike other Irish literary nationalists of the nineteenth century, he did not look for his true subject in the distant past--in nostalgia or in the rich folklore and mythology of an ancient island cultu...

A man talks about his unusual courtship of a woman he met in graduate school. He describes their courtship as an unending series of twists and turns and unexpected contingencies. He mentions their first meeting at a seminar on Sociological Perspectives in Literature which...

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories Alice Munro Alfred A. Knopf, $24, 320 pp. In the halcyon days before he became Oprah Winfrey's sparring partner, National Book Award-winner Jonathan Franzen made a fascinating admission. "After DeLillo, the living author I most admire...