The Essential Pritchett
Selected Writings of V S Pritchett
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Oct '04
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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
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.
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.
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
ISBN: 9780099474593
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 36mm
Weight: 416g
608 pages