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The V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize was founded by the Royal Society of Literature at the beginning of the new millennium to commemorate the centenary of the birth of "an author widely regarded as the finest English short-story writer of the 20th century, and to preserve a tradition encompassing Pritchett's mastery of narrative". [10]
A Careless Widow and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by V. S. Pritchett published in 1989 by Random House. The six stories first appeared individually in literary periodicals [See below Stories] [1] [2] [3] Pritchett's last volume of original short fiction, A Careless Widow was published when he was eighty-eight. [4]
“By the late 1940s Pritchett, at least in his best stories, was capturing characters of surprising depth and dimension - and capturing them sharply - while seeming to allow them to live and breath and eventually go their own way, without giving his reader a sense that these characters have been reduced or violated…For Pritchett, what will abide is character.”
The Camberwell Beauty and Other Stories is a collection of nine works of short fiction by V. S. Pritchett first published in 1974 by Chatto & Windus and by Random House. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The stories originally appeared individually in periodicals, including The New Yorker , Playboy and Encounter [See Stories section below].
The “flattering” critique prompted modest sales for The Spanish Virgin, and likely encouraged Pritchett to pursue the short story form after the disappointing response to his second novel, Clare Drummer (1929). [5] Literary critic Edward J. O’Brien selected “Tragedy in a Greek Theatre” for the 1927 Best Short Stories of the Year. [6]
The opening paragraph introduces the sailor, Albert Edward Thomson, “probably the most memorable of all Pritchett’s eccentrics.” [4] He was lifting his knees high and holding his hands up, when I first saw him, as if, crossing the road through the stinging rain, he was breaking through the beaded curtain of a Pernambuco bar.
A year later, again in The New York Review of Books, writer and critic V.S. Pritchett gave a good sense of the stories' impact: "Ian McEwan has been recognized as an arresting new talent in the youngest generation of English short story writers. His subject matter is often squalid and sickening; his imagination has a painful preoccupation with ...
Very Short Introductions (VSI) is a book series published by the Oxford University Press (OUP). The books are concise introductions to particular subjects, intended for a general audience but written by experts. Most are under 200-pages long. While authors may present personal viewpoints, the books are meant to be "balanced and complete" as ...