The O'Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo

Anthony Trollope does not always quite get the point of the short story as a medium, but in 'The O'Conors of Castle Conor,' we have a delightful exception. For one thing, he does not weight the story down with a heavy superstructure of superfluous description. He begins in medias res with his English hero, Archibald Green, stuck in the wilds of Ballyglass, Ireland, without a proper introduction to the local lord, Tom O'Conor, who is a fox-hunting aficionado. What our hero does is join the fox hunt without an invitation, only to find that he is not only welcome, but asked to stay at Castle Oonor. (Goodreads)