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V.S. Pritchett
Book List in Order: 31 titles
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On the Edge of Cliff
- Oct-1979
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Hardcover: 179 pages Publisher: Random House; 1st edition (October 12, 1979) Language: English ISBN-10: 0394504852 ISBN-13: 978-0394504858 Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces...
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Key to My Heart
- Mar-1982
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'In our town, if you cough in the High Street the chemist up at the Town Hall has got the bottle of cough mixture wrapped up and waiting for you.' And nobody in the town provides such a wealth of delicious gossip as 'Noisy' Brackett and his wife Sall...
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The Spanish Temper
- Jan-1984
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Eliciting comparisons to Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, Pritchett's meditative work on Spain is comprised of a string of sketches, woven around the author's musings on the Spanish character.Having lived in Spain for four years during the 1...
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A Careless Widow and Other Stories
- Oct-1989
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First published in 1989, here is England's leading man of letters-as old as the century-at the height of his powers, the incomparable V. S. Pritchett, whose brilliantly observed short stories have become classics in his own lifetime. In these six bea...
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A Cab at the Door & Midnight Oil
- Jul-1994
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Two enchanting memoirs from V. S. Pritchett, available for the first time in a single volume
A Cab at the Door, originally published in 1968, recalls his childhood in turn-of-the-century and World War I London with the urbane subtlety and ... -
The Lady from Guatemala
- Dec-1997
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The Lady from Guatemala is a collection of stories from one of the most distinguished short story writers in English. From first to last, V.S. Pritchett's writing displays a shrewd understanding of class and character and a quick ear for the inner...
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The Pritchett Century
- Jan-1999
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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 o...
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Essential Stories
- Jan-2005
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Introduction by JEREMY TREGLOWN“In his daily walks through London,” notes Jeremy Treglown in his Introduction to this collection, “Pritchett watched and listened to people as a naturalist observes wild creatures and birds. He knew that oddity i...
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Mr. Beluncle
- Jan-2005
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“Like most great comedy,” writes Darin Strauss in his Introduction, “Mr. Beluncle makes sport of the Stuffed Shirt, the Hypocritical Pious Gentleman, and the Tyrant, as well as the Big Spender"and all these descriptions fit a single character...
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The Oxford Book of Short Stories
- May-2010
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V. S. Pritchett, one our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years.
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Foreign Faces
- Oct-2011
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'I am,' writes Mr. Pritchett, 'an offensive traveller'-meaning not that he is rude to porters, but that his praise of a country has sometimes been taken by its inhabitants as abuse or ridicule. Be that as it may, his book, which is based upon soj...
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Lasting Impressions
- Nov-2011
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The essays in Lasting Impressions have never before appeared in book form and together they make up, in the author's own words, a journey through different countries and different generations. The subjects range from Bruce Chatwin and Salmon Rushdi...
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The Other Side of a Frontier
- Nov-2011
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The Other Side of a Frontier is a celebration of the distinguished contribution which V.S. Pritchett has made to English letters over the past fifty years. Introduced by the author, the collection has been chosen from his short stories, literary cri...
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The Camberwell Beauty
- Oct-2012
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The Camberwell Beauty is a collection of short stories which explore the close-knit world of antique dealers, their obsessions and suspicions, their hatred of customers and the fantasy lives that grow out of the objects they collect. The Lady from...
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Dead Man Leading
- Oct-2012
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First published in 1937, this thrilling novel tells the story of an expedition by three Englishmen into the Brazilian jungle; a journey which turns into an obsessive quest for the truth behind a missionary's disappearance seventeen years earlier. T...
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It May Never Happen
- Jan-2013
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V.S. Pritchett's Englishness " the dependable Englishness of shabby, bumptious businessmen, shy wives, puritanical suburbanites and vinegar-tongued grandmothers " often came out in surprising ways. Though comfortably set in the dirty brick fa...
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In My Good Books
- Apr-2013
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In Mr. Pritchett's view, rules, regulations and blitzes have brought things to such a pass that the moment will come when only the reader "and the hundred best authors are left in the world and have somehow to shake down together." To prepa...
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The Living Novel
The critical essays of V.S. Pritchett are unparalleled for their wit, geniality, subtlety and profound good sense. His survey of writers ranges from Fielding and Smollett to Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Nathanael West and William Golding...from Balzac t...
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A Man of Letters
V. S. Pritchett is widely -- and justly -- regarded not only as one of the finest short story writers of this century, but as a critic and essayist of astonishing range, perception and originality. Combining an unpretentious common sense with a ra...