P. D. James (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
Other Literary Forms
Though P. D. James is known principally as a novelist, she is also a short-story writer and a playwright. The great bulk of James’s work is in the form of the long narrative, but her short fiction has found a wide audience through its publication in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and other popular periodicals. It is generally agreed that James requires the novel form to show her literary strengths to best advantage. Still, short stories such as “The Victim” reveal in microcosm the dominant theme of the long works. James’s lone play, A...
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