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This prize is awarded annually, with up to £2,000 being given for the best unpublished short story of the year. [ 10 ] Perhaps his most prominent literary successor is the contemporary American writer Darin Strauss , who has written widely about Pritchett, [ 11 ] and who worked to get Pritchett's 1951 novel Mr Beluncle back into print in ...
Short Story Title Year of first publication H. G. Wells "The Land Ironclads" 1903 Frank L. Pollack "Finis: 1906 Rudyard Kipling "As Easy as ABC" 1912 Jack Williamson "The Metal Man" 1928 Stanley G. Weinbaum "A Martian Odyssey" 1934 John W. Campbell Jr. "Night" 1935 Clifford D. Simak "Desertion" 1944 Lewis Padgett "The Piper's Son" 1945 A. E ...
Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984: History – U.K. 019: Medieval Britain: John Gillingham, Ralph A. Griffiths: 10 August 2000: Chapters from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984: History – U.K. 020: The Tudors: John Guy: 10 August 2000 29 August 2013 (2nd ed.) Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History ...
She is perhaps best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories, set between the First and Second World Wars, which feature Lord Peter Wimsey, an English aristocrat and amateur sleuth. Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work. [1] [2]
Also an accomplished short story writer, Byatt's first published collection was Sugar and Other Stories (1987). [6] The Matisse Stories (1993) features three pieces, each describing a painting by the eponymous painter; each is the tale of an initially smaller crisis that shows the long-present unravelling in the protagonists' lives. [6]
The Bedroom of the Mister's Wife (1999) brings together 14 of his short stories, including "Dead Languages", which A. S. Byatt selected for her Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998), making Hensher the youngest author included in the anthology. [9]