Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev V. S. Pritchett Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin's translation of the legendary Russian novella of growing up and heartbreak When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the capricious young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each other, Vladimir's unrequited youthful passion soon turns to torment and despair - although he remains unaware of his true rival for Zinaida's affections. Set in the world of nineteenth-century...
Isaiah Berlin's translation of the legendary Russian novella of growing up and heartbreak When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves nex...
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel." Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly...
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said...
"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 is the norm, not the exception." This finely attuned sense, coupled with an understanding that nothing in life is mundane, is what makes these stories so immensely enjoyable. Drawing on a vast treasure chest of writings, Treglown has selected sixteen of Pritchett's gems, including "A Serious Question," which makes its debut in book form...
Introduction by JEREMY TREGLOWN
"In his daily walks through London," notes Jeremy Treglown in his Introduction to this collection, "Prit...
V S Pritchett was one of the most subtle, potent and best-loved of modern British writers, an unparalleled story-teller and biographer. This volume, edited by his son, is a tribute to a lifetime of writing. It looks back to his childhood and youth in extracts from his autobiographies A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil.
V S Pritchett was one of the most subtle, potent and best-loved of modern British writers, an unparalleled story-teller and biographer. This volume, e...
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 prepare for this "unnerving situation" he has re-read and re-assessed some of these authors, and the essays collected in this book are the fruit of his cogitations.
Gibbon, Mrs. Gaskell, Dostoevsky, Fielding, Kilvert, Twain, Synge, Swift, Browning, are some of the writers Mr. Pritchett discusses. Names and dates are diverse, but nearly all have one...
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 ...
