The Pritchett century / V.S. Pritchett
1998, 1st edition. London : Chatto & Windus. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #438311
ISBN: 0701166363
Physical description: xxii, 577 pages ; 24 cm. Contents: Autobiography. As old as the century : V.S. Pritchett at eighty ; From A cab at the door ; From Midnight oil -- Travel writing. The Appalachian mountains ; From Marching Spain ; From The Spanish temper ; From Foreign faces ; From New York proclaimed ; From Dublin : a portrait ; London ; Amazonia -- Novels. From Dead man leading ; From Mr. Beluncle -- Short stories. Sense of humour ; The evils of Spain ; The oedipus complex ; Things as they are ; When my girl comes home ; The liars ; The Camberwell beauty ; Did you invite me? ; The marvellous girl ; The vice-consul ; The fig tree ; Cocky Olly ; The image trade -- Biography. From The gentle barbarian : the life and work of Turgenev ; From Chekhov : a spirit set free -- Literary criticism. Mark Twain ; Samuel Richardson ; Sir Walter Scott ; Charles Dickens ; George Eliot ; Honoré de Balzac ; Ivan Turgenev ; Henry James ; James Boswell ; Tobias Smollett ; Saki ; George Meredith ; Miguel de Cervantes ; Leo Tolstoy ; Gabriel García Márquez ; S.J. Perelman ; Saul Bellow ; Gerald Brenan ; Molly Keane ; John Osborne ; Salman Rushdie. Subjects: Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon) 1900-1997 Travel. Authors, English 20th century ; Biography.
Price: €12.95