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ID
b243
Title
"A Prospect of Orchards."
Genre
Novella
Page Count
38
Word Count
11000
Publisher
Cornhill Magazine
Publication Year
1957
Document Types
First-Person Narratives
Topics
Adultery

As narrated by a familiarly passive and mild-mannered Bates character, the tale concerns an unhappy couple living in the country, each openly involved with a lover.

In The Cornhill Magazine (Winter 1957), An Aspidistra in Babylon/The Grapes of Paradise (1960), The Grapes of Paradise (1974).