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“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 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 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 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]
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.
The society publishes an annual magazine, The Royal Society of Literature Review, [7] and administers a number of literary prizes and awards, including the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction, the RSL Encore Award for best second novel of the year and the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for short stories.
Most of the book's narrative covers the events of the twelve-month period between Miss M.'s twentieth and twenty-first years as she attempts to make her way in the world alone after the death of her parents. She lodges in the house of a dour but kindly, somewhat Dickensian, landlady, Mrs. Bowater, whose absent husband "follows the sea."