Something Special (short story)

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name = Something Special
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author = Iris Murdoch
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country = Ireland
language = English
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genre = Short story
publisher = Macmillan
release_date = 1957
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media_type = Print
pages = 41pp
isbn = ISBN 0701169184
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"Something Special" is the only published short story by Iris Murdoch. It first appeared in 1957 in a collection entitled "Winter's Tales 3", and after inclusion in anthologies in Japan (1971, 1972), England (1979) and Finland (1990) it was republished separately by Chatto & Windus in 1999.

Yvonne Geary, the 24-year-old daughter of a Dublin shopkeeper, is courted by a young Jewish man, Sam Goldman, who takes her out for the night. After an unpleasant scene at a rowdy public house Sam decides to take Yvonne into his confidence.

Publication history

*1957: "Winter's Tales 3," pp175-204. Macmillan, London. St Martin's Press, New York.
*1971: "Murdoch, Spark and Bowen," pp1-29. ed. Hisayasu Hirukawa. Eichosha, Tokyo.
*1972: "Modern English Stories," pp286-303. Shueisa, Tokyo.
*1979: "Women Writing: an Anthology," pp1-19. ed. Denys Val Baker. W H Allen, London.
*1979: "Best for Winter: a Selection from 25 Years of Winter's Tales," pp46-59. ed. A D Maclean. Macmillan, London.
*1990: "Something Special: Four Poems and a Story." Eurographica, Helsinki.
*1999: "Something Special." Chatto & Windus, London.

References

*John Fletcher, Cheryl Bove. "Iris Murdoch: a descriptive primary and annotated secondary bibliography." Garland Publishing, New York, 1994.