• The Pritchett Century: A Selection of the Best by V. S. Pritchett V. S. Pritchett
    ISBN: 9780375752179, 037575217X
    Год издания: 1998
    Издательство: Modern Library
    Язык: Английский

    “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…

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