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V. S. Pritchett (1900–1997)

Autore di The Oxford Book of Short Stories

82+ opere 2,816 membri 25 recensioni 6 preferito

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Born in Ipswich and educated at Alleyn's School, Dulwich, and Dulwich College, novelist and critic V. S. Pritchett worked in the leather trade and later as a commercial traveler and shop assistant. After World War II, he was literary editor of the New Statesman and Nation and has frequently mostra altro contributed to American periodicals and the N.Y. Times Book Review. He is a distinguished short story writer who has often appeared in the New Yorker. Pritchett has also collaborated with the photographer Evelyn Hofer on three charming and excellent portraits of London, New York, and Dublin. Pritchett, who has been lauded for his fine literary criticism, has also written about many other writers. He received numerous awards including the 1969 Heinemann Award, the 1974 PEN Award, the 1990 W. H. Smith Literary Award, and the 1993 Golden Pen Award. He died from a stroke on March 20, 1997. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

Opere di V. S. Pritchett

The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981) — A cura di — 510 copie
London Perceived (1962) 171 copie
A Cab at the Door (1968) 147 copie
Collected Stories (1968) 146 copie
Complete Collected Stories (1990) 145 copie
Chekhov: a spirit set free (1988) 108 copie
The Pritchett Century (1997) 104 copie
Complete Collected Essays (1991) 103 copie
Essential Stories (2005) 72 copie
The Myth Makers (1979) 62 copie
The Spanish Temper (1928) 61 copie
Balzac (1973) 61 copie
Mr. Beluncle (1951) 57 copie
More Collected Stories (1983) 56 copie
Midnight Oil (1967) 56 copie
On the Edge of the Cliff (1902) 54 copie
Dublin: A Portrait (1967) 48 copie
Selected Stories (1978) 44 copie
At Home and Abroad (1989) 36 copie
Amore cieco (1990) 30 copie
New York Proclaimed (1965) 29 copie
The Living Novel (1946) 24 copie
Marching Spain (1988) 20 copie
The Turn of the Years (1982) 15 copie
The Offensive Traveller (1967) 14 copie
When My Girl Comes Home (1961) 13 copie
The Lady from Guatemala (1997) 13 copie
Books in general (1953) 9 copie
In My Good Books (2011) 6 copie
This England 5 copie
Il santo (2022) 5 copie
The working novelist (1965) 5 copie
Nothing Like Leather (1935) 3 copie
Foreign faces (1964) 3 copie
It May Never Happen (2013) 3 copie
Double Divan (1975) 2 copie
Dublin (2017) 1 copia
Clare Drummer 1 copia
The Spanish Virgin (2012) 1 copia
Just a Little More [short story] — Autore — 1 copia
Blind Love (1969) 1 copia
This England [1940] (1937) 1 copia
The Spree 1 copia
The Saint 1 copia
A New World 1 copia

Opere correlate

Orgoglio e pregiudizio (1813) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni80,216 copie
Tre uomini in barca (per non parlar del cane) (1889) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni7,662 copie
Memento mori (1959) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni1,722 copie
Primo amore (1860) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni1,467 copie
In a Glass Darkly (1872) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni1,417 copie
50 Great Short Stories (1952) — Collaboratore — 1,244 copie
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Collaboratore — 1,130 copie
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (1986) — Collaboratore — 542 copie
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (2007) — Collaboratore — 535 copie
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Collaboratore — 462 copie
Mister Johnson ; Aissa è salva (1949) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni451 copie
The Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1967) — Collaboratore — 430 copie
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1989) — Collaboratore — 429 copie
The Sea and the Jungle (1912) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni416 copie
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Collaboratore — 275 copie
A Book of English Essays (1942) — Collaboratore — 242 copie
Granta 87: Jubilee! The 25th Anniversary Issue (2004) — Collaboratore — 201 copie
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998) — Collaboratore — 192 copie
Nothing But You: Love Stories From The New Yorker (1997) — Collaboratore — 186 copie
First Love and Other Stories (2001) — Introduzione — 136 copie
The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1972) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni118 copie
Great English Short Stories (1957) — Collaboratore — 108 copie
The Norton Book of Friendship (1991) — Collaboratore — 95 copie
The Treasury of English Short Stories (1985) — Collaboratore — 84 copie
Stories from The New Yorker, 1950 to 1960 (1958) — Collaboratore — 80 copie
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991) — Collaboratore — 75 copie
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Collaboratore — 74 copie
Modern English Short Stories: Second Series (1911) — Collaboratore — 62 copie
65 Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979) — Collaboratore — 59 copie
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Collaboratore — 51 copie
Modern Short Stories (1939) — Collaboratore — 49 copie
The Norton Book Of Ghost Stories (1994) — Collaboratore — 49 copie
The Second Ghost Book (1952) — Collaboratore — 46 copie
The Oxford Book of English Love Stories (1996) — Collaboratore — 35 copie
Great Tours and Detours: The Sophisticated Traveler Series (1985) — Collaboratore — 34 copie
Twentieth Century Interpretations of 1984 (1971) — Collaboratore — 19 copie
The Penguin New Writing No. 30 (1947) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
31 Stories (1960) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
In the Dead of Night (1961) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
The Bedside Lilliput (1950) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Growing Up Stories (1995) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
England forteller : britiske og irske noveller (1970) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
The Penguin New Writing No. 23 (1942) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Top Teen Stories (2004) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
The Penguin New Writing No. 18 (1943) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Short Fiction: Shape and Substance (1971) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Tredive mesterfortællinger — Autore, alcune edizioni3 copie
Penguin Modern Stories 9 (1971) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Personal Choice (1977) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Penguin New Writing No. 21 (1944) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Carmen & Colomba (1949) — Introduzione — 1 copia
[Anthologie de nouvelles anglaises] (2001) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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41 stories from Sor Walter Scott to John Updike
 
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betty_s | 3 altre recensioni | Sep 15, 2023 |
Reynolds Stone was born in 1909 and died in 1979. Perhaps best known for his wood engravings, he was also a painter, designer (with public commissions for stamps and bank notes), and letterer in stone (Sir Winston Churchill's memorial in Westminster Abbey). Pritchett and Stone were close personal friends.
 
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zadkine | Sep 4, 2023 |
Critique of 46 fiction writers including Americans Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Henry James,
Nathanial West, and S. J. Perelman.
½
 
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iwb | Jul 30, 2022 |
Currently reading, will update with individual story reviews as I complete them. I was going to do this in the private notes field, but I didn't realize it was character limited until I hit a wall, lol.


THE TWO DROVERS (Sir Walter Scott)
3 stars - I did end up liking it somewhat, but it was very hard to get into at the start.

THE BIRTHMARK (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
2 stars - Look, I get what he's doing in this story and the Message Behind It, but I just couldn't find either character likable, though I did feel very sorry for Georgiana. Also I just kind of don't like Hawthorne that much so maybe I'm biased.

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (Edgar Allan Poe)
5 stars - Love Poe, love this story. Definitely did not pick up the implications about the Usher family when I last read this probably more than a decade ago so that was certainly a shocker.
… (altro)
 
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spacekittycat | 3 altre recensioni | Jan 8, 2021 |

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