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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 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]
“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).