The Pritchett Century : A Selection of the Best by V. S. Pritchett

Pritchett, V. S.

ISBN 10: 0679602445 / ISBN 13: 9780679602446

Editore: Random House Publishing Group, 1997

Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Codice articolo 3387016-6

Riassunto:

Gathers short stories, literary criticism, and essays by the British writer who began as a journalist in the 1920s

Dalla quarta di copertina: they say, I am a Man of Letters, I come, like my fellows, at the tail-end of a long and once esteemed tradition in English and American writing. We have no captive audience. We do not teach. We write to be readable and to engage the interest of what Virginia Woolf called 'the common reader.'"
    In a life that spanned almost the entire course of the twentieth century--he was born in 1900 and died in 1997--Sir Victor Pritchett mastered nearly every form of literature: the novel, short fiction, travel writing, biography, criticism, and memoir. Now, Sir Victor's son Oliver has selected representative samples to illustrate the tremendous scope of his father's brilliance. Included in this volume are sections of Pritchett's memoirs, A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil; his reflections on turning eighty; and an account of a visit to the Appalachians written in 1925. There are also portraits of Dublin, New York, the Amazon, and Spain; selections from the novels Dead Man Leading

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Titolo: The Pritchett Century : A Selection of the ...
Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group
Data di pubblicazione: 1997
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Good
Edizione: Modern library ed.