A Set of Variations
# 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").

