V. S. Pritchett (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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V. S. Pritchett is recognized above all as a master of the short story. His stories rely less on plot than on character—character revealed principally through dialogue. Many of Pritchett’s stories were first published in magazines; they have been collected, however, in more than a dozen volumes.
Pritchett is also widely known as a travel writer and a literary critic and biographer. As the former, he produced several works, among which The Spanish Temper (1954) was perhaps most highly praised. The Offensive Traveller (1964; also...
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