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The William Trevor Reader: “Mrs. Acland’s Ghosts”

I’ve mentioned before that one of the pleasures of a project like this is the way certain types of story begin to recur and constitute subgenres of the author’s output, categories of which the author may or may not have even been aware. As we approach the midway point of the , several Trevorian modes begin to repeat, some rather insistently. For instance, and

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