Tolstoy notes that this story, completed in November 1939, was O'Brian's first venture into the description of man's relationship with nature. He catches a handsome trout but as he looks down at its fine flesh and feels it bound and then lie still at his gentle touch, he feels a symbolism and cannot find it in his heart to kill it. Stories "The Return" Ī man returns for a day's fishing to a favourite spot where, over the years, he had spent happy times with several female companions. All had previously appeared in one of his earlier collections The Last Pool (1950), The Walker (1953), Lying in the Sun (1956) and The Chian Wine (1974), and some had also been published individually.ĭean King's 2000 biography includes comments on many of the stories, as do the two volumes of biography (20) by O'Brian's step-son Nikolai Tolstoy. The collection consists of 27 stories which, according to the book's first edition dust jacket, represent "all the stories which O'Brian wishes to preserve". It was published in the US under the title The Rendezvous and Other Stories. Collected Short Stories is a 1994 collection of stories by the English author Patrick O'Brian.
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