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Author : Jeremy Treglown
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book V.S. Pritchett written by Jeremy Treglown and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Victor Sawdon Pritchett
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567921489
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (214 download)
Download or read book London Perceived written by Victor Sawdon Pritchett and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a pithy and knowledgeable distillation of the London experience -- a panorama of its history, art, literature, and daily life. Here is the city that Londoners know, a paradox of grandeur and grime, the locus of bustling markets and tranquil parks, of the ancient and modern, of palaces and pubs, of docks and railroad depots. Great Londoners of the past stalk these pages -- Wren, Pepys, Defoe, Hogarth, Dickens, and of course, that consummate Londoner, Samuel Johnson, who said, "No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford." And here, too, are the faces of the people inhabiting 1960s London -- milkmen and master mariners, dockers and shopkeepers, messengers, Chelsea pensioners, and, inevitably, the London bobby. There is, as well, an analysis of the Londoner himself, enigmatic and enduring, with his remote but insistent respect for law, royalty, and ritual, his affection for argument, his toleration of eccentrics.
Author : Victor Sawdon Pritchett
Publisher : New York : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book When My Girl Comes Home written by Victor Sawdon Pritchett and published by New York : Knopf. This book was released on 1961 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : V. S. Pritchett
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307559262
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Pritchett Century written by V. S. Pritchett and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If, as 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 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, Salman Rushdie, and others. "Pritchett has lived as a man of letters must, by his pen, and he has done it with a freshness of interest and an infectious curiosity that have never waned," observed novelist Margaret Drabble. Taken together 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.
Author : V. S. Pritchett
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307430944
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Essential Stories written by V. S. Pritchett and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by JEREMY TREGLOWN “In his daily walks through London,” notes Jeremy Treglown in his Introduction to this collection, “Pritchett watched and listened to people as a naturalist observes wild creatures and birds. He knew that oddity is the norm, not the exception.” This finely attuned sense, coupled with an understanding that nothing in life is mundane, is what makes these stories so immensely enjoyable. Drawing on a vast treasure chest of writings, Treglown has selected sixteen of Pritchett’s gems, including “A Serious Question,” which makes its debut in book form here. Featuring some of the best work from a long career, this new compilation of Pritchett’s brilliantly compact stories illuminates his legendary skills.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor Sawdon Pritchett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Marching Spain written by Victor Sawdon Pritchett and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : V.S. Pritchett
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448202299
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book The Spanish Temper written by V.S. Pritchett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliciting comparisons to Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, Pritchett's meditative work on Spain is comprised of a string of sketches, woven around the author's musings on the Spanish character.Having lived in Spain for four years during the 1920s, Pritchett is well placed to deliver such a report, and his resulting narrative is both well informed and delightfully written.
Author : V.S. Pritchett
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448201942
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book The Gentle Barbarian written by V.S. Pritchett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A gentle giant', as the Goncourts called him, Turgenev emerged from the barbarous yet doting rules of a terrible mother, whose cruelties to her serfs are at the heart of his hatred of serfdom. He was saturated in femininity and could not write unless he was in love. When he freed himself from his mother, he became enslaved by the famous Spanish singer, Pauline Viardot, married to a Frenchman. He was heir to vast estates, a convinced Westerner, proud to be both European and deeply Russian, and one of the most civilized men of his time. This is his story.
Author : V.S. Pritchett
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144820206X
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Dublin written by V.S. Pritchett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VS. Pritchett, master of the short story, is also the most evocative of travel writers. First published in 1967, his portrait of Dublin - its past, politics and people, its grand mansions and curious corners - is as beguiling and eloquent as the city itself, as he writes of the Dublin he knew in the 1920s, of visits to Sean O'Casey and Yeats (brandishing a teapot in his rage at Shaw) and of the changing city forty years later, facing the future but still as eccentric and engaging as ever.
Author : Victor Sawdon Pritchett
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Complete Collected Stories written by Victor Sawdon Pritchett and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cited by The New York Times as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year, this collection of 82 stories sums up the magnificent career of one of the greatest tellers of tales in the English language.
Author : V.S. Pritchett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144820240X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book A Man of Letters written by V.S. Pritchett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. S. Pritchett is widely - and justly - regarded not only as one of the finest short story writers of this century, but as a critic and essayist of astonishing range, perception and originality. Combining an unpretentious common sense with a rare genius for the illuminating insight into the familiar and the neglected alike, his criticism is all the more valuable in an age in which the study of literature has become increasingly arid and arcane; and unlike so many of his academic counterparts, V. S. Pritchett has always had a remarkable ability to epitomise a writer's work - and convey his own enthusiasm for it - within the compass of a short and eminently accessible essay. First published in 1985, A Man of Letters brings together a selection of his finest and most representative work from the past forty years, ranging from Smollett and Peacock to Evelyn Waugh and Cyril Connolly, from Henry James and Nathanael West to Stendhal and Proust, from Nabokov and Machado de Assis to Manzoni and Dostoevsky. This wise and sparkling collection is, in itself, a lasting tribute to one of the greatest Men of Letters of our time.
Author : Victor Sawdon Pritchett
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Complete Short Stories written by Victor Sawdon Pritchett and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged chronologically and published in the year of the author's ninetieth birthday.
Author : Victor Sawdon Pritchett
Publisher : Random House Trade
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book A Cab at the Door written by Victor Sawdon Pritchett and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1968 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of [his] first memoir, A CAB AT THE DOOR, refers to the many times as a boy that he was awakened to find "a cabby and his horse * * * coughing together outside the house and the next thing we knew we were driving to an underground station and to a new house in a new part of London, to the smell of new paint [and] new mice dirts". Given the vicissitudes of his father's business endeavors and his efforts to dodge his creditors, by the time Pritchett was twelve the family had had eighteen different addresses. Pritchett started school in industrial South London at the age of eight, and at fifteen he left school to work in the leather trade. His four years with the leather factors essentially coincided with World War I and the bombing of London by Zeppelins. After Pritchett recovered from an extended illness first brought on by influenza, he resolved to escape the constant family upheaval and pursue his destiny in Paris.
Author : V.S. Pritchett
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448202442
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book The Other Side of a Frontier written by V.S. Pritchett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Side of a Frontier is a celebration of the distinguished contribution which V.S. Pritchett has made to English letters over the past fifty years. Introduced by the author, the collection has been chosen from his short stories, literary criticism, biographies and travel writing, and includes extracts from his autobiographies. It provides a perfect introduction to a universally acknowledged master of the English language.
Author : Victor Sawdon Pritchett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Complete Collected Essays written by Victor Sawdon Pritchett and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essayist, critic, novelist, short story writer, and biographer presents 203 essays on such writers as Gibbon, Cervantes, Balzac, Flaubert, Woolf, Shaw, Twain, Garci+a7a Lorca, Updike, Rushdie, and others. - Google Books.
Author : Saul Bellow
Publisher : Odyssey Editions
ISBN 13 : 1623730198
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)
Download or read book The Victim written by Saul Bellow and published by Odyssey Editions. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's sweltering summer in New York City, and Asa Leventhal is alone. His co-workers ignore or condescend to him, his wife is away with her mother, and his estranged brother has run off, abandoning his wife and two sons. One night, Leventhal is confronted by a stranger--'one of those guys who want you to think they can see to the bottom of your soul'--who reveals himself to be a marginal figure from his distant past. Leventhal, accused of ruining the man's life, becomes shocked and dismissive, vehemently denying any part in the man's unhappy lot. But as time passes, he is increasingly unable to separate his own good fortune from the bad luck of this down-and-out stranger, who will not leave him be. A brief, haunting rumination on the vagaries of fate and responsibility, The Victim is, in the words of Norman Rush, Saul Bellow's "purest creation."
