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A Summons to Memphis

Peter Taylor
The Old Forest and Other Stories (Modern Library)

Peter Taylor
In the Tennessee Country: A Novel

Peter Taylor

In 1916, a young boy, Nathan Longfort, is on the funeral train bearing the body of his grandfather, the Senator, from Washington, D.C., to Knoxville, Tennessee. The memory of this journey will haunt him for the rest of his life. On this trip, he meets the enigmatic Cousin Aubrey, a man of "irregular kinship," the black sheep of the Longfort clan. As the years pass, and Aubrey disappears into the world, Nathan begins to compulsively collect rumors about his faraway life—as Nathan's mother's first true love, a charmer of European society, a Don Juan, a worldly success—and sees it in stinging contrast to his own unfulfilled dreams of becoming an artist. Much later in life, the two men—now old—will meet again.
A Woman of Means: A Novel

Peter Taylor

Gerald Dudley is an executive at a hardware company in St. Louis, living the quintessential bachelor life with his young son, Quint. He is also a man who aspires beyond his means and class. When Gerald meets the wealthy divorcée Ann Lauterbach and the two marry, life changes irrevocably for Quint. He enters a social world of private schools and debutante balls known to him only through his father's longings. As Quint's attachment to his stepmother and her "means" grows, her marriage to his father begins to crumble in small, subtle ways, which ultimately leads to larger, more devastating consequences.
The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor

In this collection of short fiction, one of the heralded masters of the form examines the lives of men and women in the 1930s and '40s South—a region and a time he knew well. Living in a well-ordered world that's beginning to lose its equilibrium, Taylor's fascinating characters struggle to come to terms with the constricting circumstances into which they were born. Delicately interweaving the joys and pains of these families, Peter Taylor goes beyond regionalism to the simple truths recognizable to people everywhere.
The Blood Runs Deep (Linford Western)

Peter Taylor
In the Miro District

Peter Taylor

In this magnificent collection of eight exquisite short stories:
A Tennessee man ponders his sister's marriage -- and his parents' strange participation in its undoing.
A country cousin staying with relative in Nashville becomes her own most severe -- and tragic -- critic.
A writer discovers the true meaning of heroism in a visit to his elderly mother.
And in the masterful title story, a teenage boy provokes his grandfather to a move neither could have expected.
The Courageous Breed (Linford Western Library (Large Print))

Peter Taylor
A Day Saved: And Other Modern Stories

Peter Taylor

How does a man become successful although unable to read or write? How does a woman get her final revenge on her husband? What happens when a man invites friends to a party at which he himself doesn't appear, but watches from a distance? What happens to a boy who feels fated to be a genius? These are some of the questions dealt with in the ten stories in this collection. The stories, by important modern authors, have been specially selected for advanced students of English. They are not simplified, but vocabulary explanations and notes are provided in order to help comprehension.
The Long Ride Back (Black Horse Western)

Peter Taylor
The Old Forest & The Hand of Emmagene

Peter Taylor

The Old Forest: A girl is missing. She had been with Nat in a minor car accident, and now his fiancee must find her. The reason ahs to do with love, tradition and a woman's power. The Hand of Emmagene: A story with a slightly different tone; Emmagene has come from the country to stay with her city relatives. Extremely religious, she his troubled by an unknown conflict when she begins dating boys from home.
Oracle at Stoneleigh Court

Peter Taylor

"Taylor is a master of the short story form....[His] is an extraordinary gift, too often absent in contemporary fiction."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
In eleven lyrical, moving, and eerie tales, and three one-act plays Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor lays claim to a level of literary observation and feeling that is unmatched. Whether he is exploring the limitations of family and the ambivalence of identity in "Cousin Aubry," the cruel payments exacted by love forsaken in "The Witch of Owl Mountain Springs," or the strange, possibly supernatural power that love calls into play in the title novella, Peter Taylor proves once again that he is a writer of rare talent who should not be missed.
Vengeance in His Guns (Linford Western Library (Large Print))

Peter Taylor
Blood Quest (Linford Western)

Peter Taylor
The Decline & Fall of the Episcopal Church

Peter Taylor

The Old Forest provides a description of the social traditions of Southern aristocracy. The Hand of Emmagene tells of a young woman from the country who comes to stay with her relatives in town. 2 cassettes.
The Decline & Fall of the Episcopal Church: (In the Year of Our Lord 1952) (Commuter's Library)

Peter Taylor

This collection of four stories take place in a small town in the South. 2 cassettes.