V S Pritchett

A magnificent volume in celebration of this perceptive, witty, wise and endlessly knowledgeable man who should find a place in every library

A treasure trove of a volume...Essential reading

The greatest English short-story writer of the twentieth century

Travel writer, biographer, novelist, essayist... Pritchett looks protean, but really his genius is indivisible. He is a teller of stories

Selected Writings of V S Pritchett

V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) was one of the most subtle, potent and best-loved of modern British writers, an unparalleled story-teller and biographer and essayist of unique humour and insight. This volume contains an engrossing and lively collection of his autobiographical, travel and critical writings and a selection of the humorous and poignant short stories for which he is most remembered. It includes extracts from A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil, as well as literary criticism on a range of writers from George Eliot and Balzac to Chekov and Turgenev. 
 
Edited by his son, Oliver, The Essential Pritchett is a tribute to a lifetime of writing.

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A magnificent volume in celebration of this perceptive, witty, wise and endlessly knowledgeable man who should find a place in every library

A treasure trove of a volume...Essential reading

The greatest English short-story writer of the twentieth century

A magnificent volume in celebration of this perceptive, witty, wise and endlessly knowledgeable man who should find a place in every library

A treasure trove of a volume...Essential reading

The greatest English short-story writer of the twentieth century

A magnificent volume in celebration of this perceptive, witty, wise and endlessly knowledgeable man who should find a place in every library

A treasure trove of a volume...Essential reading

The greatest English short-story writer of the twentieth century

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