| Description |
xxiv, 704 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Oliver Pritchett -- In Memoriam: V. S. Pritchett / John Bayley -- 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. Honore de Balzac. Ivan Turgenev. Henry James. James Boswell. Tobias Smollett. Saki. George Meredith |
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Miguel de Cervantes. Leo Tolstoy. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. S. J. Perelman. Saul Bellow. Gerald Brenan. Molly Keane. John Osborne. Salman Rushdie |
| Subject |
Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon), 1900-1997.
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| LC no. |
97015360 |
| ISBN |
0679602445 (alk. paper) |
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