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

Pritchett, V.S.

ISBN 10: 0679602445 / ISBN 13: 9780679602446

Edité par Modern Library, New York, 1997

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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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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Pritchett Century: a Selection of the Best of V.S. Pritchett
• Éditeur: Modern Library, New York
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0679602445
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780679602446
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good +
• État de la jaquette: very good +
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

Book by Pritchett VS

Revue de presse

"A rich, comfortably large anthology of work by one of the most versatile and consistently satisfying writers
of the century." --The New York Times Book Review
"This volume is a delight." --Publishers Weekly
"Spark[s] with energy." --Times Literary Supplement

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--Newsweek said he was "one of the last true men of letters." Sir Victor's son Oliver has made selections from each of his father's disciplines to illustrate the tremendous scope of his 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 and Mr. Beluncle; thirteen complete short stories; excerpts from biographies of Turgenev and Chekhov; and critical pieces on Twain, Scott, Dickens, Eliot, Henry James, Tolstoy, Saul Bellow, and Salman Rushdie.
With Oliver Pritchett's appreciation of his father and John Bayley's "In Memoriam," The Pritchett Century stands as the most comprehensive collection of Sir Victor's work available in one volume.