title: Crab Apple Jelly
text: # Crab Apple Jelly
  
  Crab Apple Jelly is a 1944 short story collection by Frank O'Connor. It includes the following stories:
  
  * The Bridal Night
  * Old Fellows
  * The Grand Vizier's Daughters
  * Song Without Words
  * 'The Star That Bids The Shepherd Fold' (alternative title: The Shepherds)
  * The Long Road to Ummera
  * The Miser
  * The House That Johnny Built
  * The New Teacher (alternate title: The Cheapjack)
  * The Luceys
  * Uprooted
  * The Mad Lomasneys
  
  According to the critic Richard Ellmann, "crab apple jelly" was O'Connor's description of the "sweet and tart mixture" he aimed for in his work generally. Ellmann adds, "[O'Connor's] best stories stir those facial muscles which, we are told, are the same for both laughing and weeping."
  
  