The Pritchett Century: a Selection of the Best of V.S. Pritchett

Pritchett, V.S.

ISBN 10: 0679602445 / ISBN 13: 9780679602446

Published by Modern Library, New York, 1997

About this Item

First printing. A Modern Library Original. Selections from the work of V. S. Pritchett including memoirs, essays, travel writing, novels, short stories, and criticism. Selected and with a foreword by Oliver Pritchett. Introduction by Joyn Bayley. A clean unmarked copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pritchett Century: a Selection of the Best of V.S. Pritchett
• Publisher: Modern Library, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679602445
• ISBN 13: 9780679602446
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good +
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Synopsis

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

From the Back Cover

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