Complete Collected Stories of V. S. Pritchett | Ideas for Group Discussions

Because The Complete Collected Stories numbers eighty-two pieces of short fiction, detailed discussion of each one may exceed the time and energy that any group wishes to devote to such an exercise. However, with short fiction, certain general areas can be traversed that will allow for discussion of larger issues: character, plot, setting, theme, language, style, character interaction, or even of the genre itself as Pritchett practiced it. One might begin, simply, with Valentine Cunningham's declaration ([London] Times Literary Supplement 23 November 1990: 1255) that...

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