Sylvia Townsend Warner's delightful contributions to the art of fiction began almost half a century ago with two novels, Lolly Willowes and Mr. Fortune's Maggot. Soon afterward she showed her great versatility by alternating her novels with volumes of poetry and of short stories, many of which have appeared in The New Yorker. In recent years she has developed her short fiction to a high degree of perfection and enchantment. After twenty books, the stories in The Innocent and the Guilty finely illustrate how Miss Townsend Warner has heitened all her wry perceptio of human motives.
Sylvia Townsend Warner's delightful contributions to the art of fiction began almost half a century ago with two novels, Lolly Willowes and Mr. Fortune's Maggot. Soon afterward she showed her great versatility by alternating her novels with volumes of poetry and of short stories, many of which have appeared in The New Yorker. In recent years she has developed her short fiction to a high degree of perfection and enchantment. After twenty books, the stories in The Innocent and the Guilty finely illustrate how Miss Townsend Warner has heitened all her wry perceptio of human motives.