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V.S. Pritchett (Estate)
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Sir Victor Pritchett was born in 1900, and over the course of the century, mastered nearly every form of literature - the novel, short fiction, travel writings, criticism, and memoir

THE PRITCHETT CENTURY

  (Jan 97)

"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.

THE HOUSE HOLDER

HUTCHINSON (Jan 89)


AT HOME AND ABROAD

  (Jan 89)


A CARELESS WIDOW

  (Jan 89)


CHEKHOV: A SPIRIT SET FREE

  (Jan 88)


A MARCHING SPAIN

  (Jan 88)


THE GENTLE BARBARIAN

  (Jan 87)


OTHER SIDE OF THE FRONTIER

  (Jan 84)


TURN OF THE YEARS

  (Jan 82)


THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF, AND OTHER STORIES

  (Jan 80)


THE TAIL BEARERS

  (Jan 80)


BALZAC

  (Jan 76)


THE LIVING NOVEL

  (Jan 76)


THE SPANISH TEMPER

  (Jan 75)


THE CAMBERWELL BEAUTY

  (Jan 74)


DEAD MAN LEADING

  (Jan 72)


MIDNIGHT OIL

PENGUIN (Jan 71)


A CAB AT THE DOOR

PENGUIN (Jan 68)


DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT BODLEY HEAD

  (Jan 67)


NEW YORK PROCLAIMED

  (Jan 65)


FOREIGN TRACES

CHATTO (Jan 64)


KEY TO MY HEART

CHATTO (Jan 63)


LONDON PERCEIVED

  (Jan 62)


WHEN MY GIRL COMES HOME

CHATTO (Jan 61)


MR. BELUNCLE

  (Jan 51)


WHY DO I WRITE: AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS BETWEEN ELIZABETH BOWEN, GRAHAM GREENE AND V. S. PRITCHETT

  (Jan 48)


NOTHING LIKE LEATHER

  (Jan 36)


LASTING IMPRESSIONS