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Cuento is a Spanish word meaning literally "story" or "tale". Cuento may specifically refer to folk tales , a category of folklore that includes stories passed down through oral tradition. The word cuento may also be used as a verb to say "tell", as if you are "telling" a story ("Cuento").
Pritchett, in his Preface to Collected Stories (1982) explained his reasons for exempting the stories in The Spanish Virgin from his retrospective collections: . I began, in those early days, by writing anecdotal sketches of real people, because the newspapers liked that kind of thing...[I] had not yet found a distinctive voice which is indispensable to the short-story writer and the poet.
The question of whether The Canterbury Tales is a finished work has not been answered to date. There are 84 manuscripts and four incunabula (printed before 1500) editions [4] of the work, which is more than for any other vernacular English literary text with the exception of Prick of Conscience.