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Nonetheless, the reviewer considers Pritchett “a fine storyteller.” [3] As in the stories of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen , the excitement in these stories grows out of ordinary human tensions and becomes most intense when the explosion is an inner discovery, unspoken and unseen.
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].
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]
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]
The 13 stories were published in 1930 by Ernest Benn Limited, London. [2] The volume represents the then 29–year-old author’s apprentice efforts. As such, they have not appeared in subsequent collections of his mature collected short fiction: “Pritchett consistently decided to leave unresurrected the stories of The Spanish Virgin.” [3]
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“Pritchett allows his story to be far more plot-driven than usual and even uses farce effectively. He does so while showing no sign of strain; in fact his narrative style - light, assured and unselfconscious - will remind many readers of Evelyn Waugh.” —Literary critic John J. Stinson in V. S. Pritchett: A Study of the Short Fiction (1992).
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.