The Pritchett Century: a Selection of the Best by V. S. Pritchett - V S Pritchett - Bøger - Modern Library - 9780375752179 - 22. december 1998
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Jacket Description/Flap: "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 Mar- garet 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 Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for thebetter part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. "From the Hardcover edition. Review Quotes: "A rich, comfortably large anthology of work by one of the most versatile and consistently satisfying writersof the century." --The New York Times Book Review"This volume is a delight." --Publishers Weekly"Spark[s] with energy." --Times Literary Supplement 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--Newsweek said he was "one of the last true men of letters." Sir Victor's son Oliver has made selections from each of his father's disciplines to illustrate the tremendous scope of his 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, and Salman Rushdie. 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. Publisher Marketing: Selected by the author's son, a collection of writings by the universally acclaimed English writer spans nearly a century of his fiction, travel writings, literary criticism, essays, and memoirs, including portions of two of his novels. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. Review Citations:

New York Times 01/31/1999 pg. 24 (EAN 9780375752179, Paperback)

Booklist 12/15/1997 pg. 684 (EAN 9780679602446, Hardcover)

Library Journal 12/01/1997 pg. 106 (EAN 9780679602446, Hardcover)

Library Journal 12/02/1997 (EAN 9780679602446, Hardcover)

New York Times 11/23/1997 pg. 9 (EAN 9780679602446, Hardcover)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 654 (EAN 9780679602446, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 11/03/1997 pg. 67 (EAN 9780679602446, Hardcover)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1998 pg. 59 (EAN 9780679602446, Hardcover)

NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 75 (EAN 9780679602446, Hardcover)

NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1998 pg. 75 (EAN 9780679602446, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Pritchett, V S On both sides of the Atlantic V. S. Pritchett has been acclaimed as one of the great masters of the short story. He is also distinguished as a critic and a traveller. Born in Suffolk in 1900, he left school at the age of sixteen to work in the leather trade in London. In the Twenties in Paris he worked as a shop assistant and as a shellac salesman, and took to journalism, first during the Irish Civil War and later in Spain. His first book", Marching Spain", the account of a long walk from Badajoz to Vigo, was published in 1928 and from then on travel was his recreation, inspiring evocations of places and peoples in "The Spanish Temper" (1954) and "London Perceived" (1962), both published by The Hogarth Press", Foreign Faces" (1964), "New York Proclaimed" (1965) and "Dublin" (1967). The author of biographies of Balzac and Turgenev, he gave the Clark Lectures on George Meredith in 1969. He was for many years a director of and contributor to the New Statesman. He contributed regularly to the "New Yorker" and the "New York Review of Books". His critical works include "The Living Novel" (1949), "The Myth Makers" (1979), "The Tale Bearers" (1980) and "A Man of Letters" (1985). His two volumes of autobiography", A Cab at the Door" (1968) and "Midnight Oil" (1971), are well known in Great Britain and abroad. His novels include "Nothing Like Leather" (1935), "Dead Man Leading" (1949) and "Mr Beluncle" (1959). The first volume of his Collected Stories appeared in 1982 and More Collected Stories in 1983. V. S. Pritchett died in 1997. Contributor Bio:  Pritchett, Oliver Matthew Pritchett is a cartoonist for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. Contributor Bio:  Bayley, John John Bayley is an eminent literary critic who taught at Oxford for more than 30 years, and was chairman of the Booker Prize Committee. Iris Murdoch died in February of 1999. Contributor Bio:  Pritchett, V S Victor Sawdon Pritchett (V. S. Pritchett) was born in 1900 over a toyshop and, much to his everlasting distaste, was named after Queen Victoria. A writer and critic, his is widely reputed to be one of the best short story writers of all time, with the rare ability to capture the extraordinary strangeness of everyday life. He died in 1997.

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Udgivet 22. december 1998
ISBN13 9780375752179
Forlag Modern Library
Antal sider 736
Mål 158 × 218 × 45 mm   ·   920 g

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