A Set of Variations

A Set of Variations is a 1969 short story collection by Frank O'Connor. It was compiled shortly after the author's death by his widow, Harriet O'Donovan Sheehy, and includes the following stories:


 * A Set of Variations on a Borrowed Theme (alternate title: Variations on a Theme)
 * The American Wife
 * The Impossible Marriage
 * The Cheat
 * The Weeping Children
 * The Saint
 * A Minority
 * An Out-And-Out Free Gift
 * Anchors
 * Sue
 * Music When Soft Voices Die
 * A Life of Your Own
 * The Corkerys
 * A Story By Maupassant
 * A Great Man
 * The School For Wives
 * Androcles and the Army
 * Public Opinion
 * The Party
 * Achilles' Heel
 * Lost Fatherlands
 * The Wreath
 * The Teacher's Mass
 * The Martyr
 * Requiem
 * An Act of Charity
 * The Mass Island

A similar collection was published in the U.K. in 1969 as Collection Three. The stories included were slightly different, and Collection Three featured one story not included in A Set of Variations ("A Mother's Warning").