Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien

by Flann O'Brien

  “Naval Control” was originally published in Amazing Stories Quarterly in 1932, attributed to John Shamus O’Donnell, and is believed to be in the public domain. For more information see pp. xv and 146–149.

  First edition, 2013

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  O’Brien, Flann, 1911–1966.

  [Short stories. Selections]

  The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien / edited by Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper, with translations from the Irish by Jack Fennell.

  -- First edition.

  pages cm

  ISBN 978-1-56478-889-4 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

  I. Murphy, Neil, editor of compilation. II. Hopper, Keith, editor of compilation. III. Title.

  PR6029.N56A6 2013b

  823’.912--dc23

  2013012011

  Partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

  ISBN 978-1-564-78987-7 (e-book)

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  Cover: design and composition by Mikhail Iliatov, image by Eddie O’Kane

  Printed on permanent/durable acid-free paper