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The Voice By V.S Pritchett (Story)

A great English writer, essayist, critic, novelist and journalist of 20th century, Victor Sawdon Pritchett (V.S.Pritchett, 1900-1997), whose career crossed over 60 years, write “The Voice”. He became popular with his short stories, in which he portrayed common Englishmen with respect and understanding humor.There are two major characters in „The Voice‟, Morgan and Rev. Lewis. When the story is started, Morgan, the priest is buried under the debris of church that had been brought down due to explosion of a bomb. He was singing a hymn through which the rescue workers came to know about his presence. Morgan was predecessor of Lewis who was now in charge of the church. Although both of them were extremely jealous from each other and hated each other but after seeing Morgan in trouble Lewis could not help stop him and rushed towards debris forgetting all his biasness. He repeatedly calls Morgan and asks him to sing. While saving Morgan, Lewis himself fell down due to crack down on the floo