The Pritchett Century; A Selection of the Best of V.S Pritchett

Pritchett, V.S; Oliver Pritchett; John Bayley [intro]

ISBN 10: 0679602445 / ISBN 13: 9780679602446

Editore: Modern Library, New York, 1997

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pp. xxiv, 704. 8vo. Bound in light grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good, rubbed dustjacket. Selected by Oliver Pritchett. Codice articolo 092799

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Titolo: The Pritchett Century; A Selection of the ...

Casa editrice: Modern Library, New York

Data di pubblicazione: 1997

Legatura: Hardcover

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

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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