The Essential Pritchett
Author: Pritchett, V S
ISBN: 9780099474593
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Dec 2004
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback / softback
'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
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.
ISBN: 9780099474593
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Dec 2004
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback / softback
'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
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.
