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"). source: Wikipedia