The Essential Pritchett: Selected Writings of V S Pritchett - Brossura

Pritchett, V S

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ISBN 10: 009947459X ISBN 13: 9780099474593

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2004

Riassunto

V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) was one of the most subtle, potent and best-loved of modern British writers, an unparalleled story-teller and biographer and essayist of unique humour and insight. This volume contains an engrossing and lively collection of his autobiographical, travel and critical writings and a selection of the humorous and poignant short stories for which he is most remembered. It includes extracts from A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil, as well as literary criticism on a range of writers from George Eliot and Balzac to Chekov and Turgenev.

Edited by his son, Oliver, The Essential Pritchett is a tribute to a lifetime of writing.

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Recensione:

"A magnificent volume in celebration of this perceptive, witty, wise and endlessly knowledgeable man who should find a place in every library" (Literary Review)

"A treasure trove of a volume...Essential reading" (Time Out)

"The greatest English short-story writer of the twentieth century" (Scotsman)

"Travel writer, biographer, novelist, essayist... Pritchett looks protean, but really his genius is indivisible. He is a teller of stories" (Martin Amis)

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'There is more in this book that you will find in a shelf of books of this or any other year... A joy' - Daily Telegraph

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 009947459X
• ISBN 13: 9780099474593
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 608