... the reader who has flipped through the pages in happy anticipation and found that it is a book of short stories who has said dis appointedly Oh short stories, and has put it aside and settled down to one of the other books. There are thirteen examples of ...

... Collected Stories By V. S. Pritchett. Chatto and Windus 20s.) There is no need to say more than that this collection is perfect of its kind. V. S. Pritchett must be our best writer of the short story or story-sketch he never wastes 1 word, and has a slant ...

... A Case of Eye Shadow and Other Stories By Elizabeth de Vegh. (Heinemann; 12s. 6d.) It sounds ungrateful, but I always feel that the more a short story writer shows of power in writing and talent in character and situation, the more 's the pity that these ...

... THE BEACHCOMBER (Leicester Square) Is a new version, with Robert Newton and Glynis Johns, of Somerset Maugham's short story The Vessel of Wrath. It deals with the reformation of a drink- sodden, derelict Englishman by the prim sister of a missionary ...

... The Black Prince and Other Stories By Shirley Ann Grau. (Heinemann 12s. 6d.) Shirley Ann Grau is one of those young American writers who have turned to the short story as a medium for sharp charac terisation, fidelity in showing life in the raw, and ...

... the two best things are an Edith Wharton short story and an urbane attack on the Edwardians by Sir Harold Nicolson. Winter's Tales. (Macmillan and Co. 16s.). A good Christmas present. Twelve long-short stories by writers of taste and discernment. The ...

... Windus 15s.) Stories of Yoknapatawpha County, an area of America's South that Faulkner has invented and peopled. This volume contains the whole of As I Lay Dying, one of his three great novels, as well as The Bear, his most praised short story (it is really ...

... The Overcoat FROM Gogol's bitter satire of a short story The Overcoat. Australian playwright Jack Hibberd has made a very good musical play in the Brechtian manner, it received its British premiere in a fine production by John Turnbull at the AAA.. ...

... picked up this powerful short story of Ernest Hemingway's, about a writer who looks back on his adventurous but futile life, while dying of gangrene on one of the highest mountains in Africa. The result is the greatest love-story you have ever seen, in ...

... working all hours at her B B to feed the family, and miserable Nina haunted by her almost family, it's hardly material for a short story in You and Your Baby. Nigel Townsend's characteristically energetic directorial style makes for a powerful 50 minutes that ...

... Brenda Ray who has been writing for a dozen years in various forms. This is her first stage play, developed from a radio short story which was itself sparked off by a dream. Brenda Ray dreamed that she was a Republican guerrilla and the detailed research ...

... Laughing Anne (Leicester Square) HERBERT WILCOX'S Laughing Anne is a very free adaptation of a short story by Joseph Conrad called Because of the Dollars. It deals with a schooner captain who meets a derelict French singer in one of the less reputable ...