Gore Vidal called him the century's "greatest English-language critic". Anthony Burgess hailed him as "our best literary critic". Now, at last, all of Pritchett's best literary essays are collected here in a single volume--203 brilliant, witty, and insightful essays.
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Gore Vidal called him the century's "greatest English-language critic". Anthony Burgess hailed him as "our best literary critic". Now, at last, all of Pritchett's best literary essays are collected here in a single volume--203 brilliant, witty, and insightful essays.
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VG+ in VG+ jacket. Octavo. Light blue boards thirdbound in a darker blue cloth backstrip with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has a very slight bumping at the head and tail of the spine and, as sometimes happens with books of this size, a very faint concavity of the spine-still straight. White endpapers. Previous owner's gift inscription on the free front endpaper. Binding straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 1, 319 pages. Dust Jacket-has a trace of rubbing at the tail of the spine and at the very tips of the four outside corners. Jacket doesn't have much wear at all, but is pretty faded-uniformly enough, however that we took it as the jacket's original color until we saw other images of the same book. Lettering is not affected to any great degree and is all easy to read. Large, heavy book will require additional postage on orders requesting International or Priority shipping services. Tight and clean.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Remainder. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Blue hardback with gold-color lettering on front cover, blue cloth spine with gold-color lettering, 1319 pp., unclipped jacket in Brodart sleeve. Small remainder mark on bottom edge of text block otherwise minimal wear, no owner names or gift notes, clean pages, tight binding, nice jacket. "Collected here are all the literary essays V. S. Pritchett [1900-1997] has written over his long and brilliant career. These 203 essays represent a lifetime of critical writing by one of the twentieth century's greatest literary talents." ** This book weighs 5 lbs. (2.26 kg). Extra charges for priority and international shipping. **
V. S. Pritchett was one of the most generous insightful and book reviewers of the 20th century. The books and writers reviewed in this book date from the 17th century to our times
He was also one of the best writers - a true master of the short story and the literary essay.
Anyone who enjoys good writing and good reading should relish this book.
I can't say how many books I have read because of what he said in these essays, but it has to been a great many and have been disappointed by the choices I have made.
