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2005 Modern Library Paperback Edition

Compilation copyright © 2005 by Random House, Inc.

Introduction copyright © 2005 by Jeremy Treglown
Biographical note copyright © 1997 by Random House, Inc.

 

All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Modern Library, an imprint of The Random
House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

 

MODERN LIBRARY and the TORCHBEARER Design are registered trademarks of
Random House, Inc.

 

The following stories appear in Complete Collected Stories by V. S. Pritchett,
copyright © 1990 by V. S. Pritchett, and are reprinted here by permission of
Random House, Inc.: “Sense of Humor,” “The Evils of Spain,” “The Two Brothers,”
“The Upright Man,” “You Make Your Own Life,” “The Sailor,” “The Lion’s Den,”
“The Saint,” “The Wheelbarrow,” “The Fall,” “When My Girl Comes Home,”
“Just a Little More,” “Our Oldest Friend,” and “On the Edge of the Cliff.”

 

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Estate of Dorothy Rudge Pritchett
c/o Sterling Lord Literistic for permission to include “The Sack of Lights”
and “A Serious Question” by V. S. Pritchett.

 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon)
 [Short stories. Selections]
Essential stories / V. S. Pritchett; selected and with an introduction by Jeremy Treglown.
p. cm.

 

I. Treglown, Jeremy. II. Title.

PR6031.R7A6 2005
823’.912—dc22 2004054682

 

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