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Author | : V. S. Pritchett |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2009-02-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307538656 |
“Like most great comedy,” writes Darin Strauss in his Introduction, “Mr. Beluncle makes sport of the Stuffed Shirt, the Hypocritical Pious Gentleman, and the Tyrant, as well as the Big Spender–and all these descriptions fit a single character: Mr. Beluncle himself.” One of V. S. Pritchett’s most enduring characters, Mr. Beluncle is narcissistic, sanctimonious, and self-indulgent, yet despite these flaws he is undeniably compelling. Readers who follow this quirky British furniture salesman on his seemingly ordinary escapades–shopping for ridiculously expensive houses, attending services at his peculiar church, presiding over a tumultuous family meal–are in for a delightful and disquieting ride. Poignant, hilarious, and utterly unforgettable Mr. Beluncle is an ideal introduction to one of the English language’s most gifted authors.
Author | : V. S. Pritchett |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 2009-03-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307559262 |
"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 Margaret 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.
Author | : John McCormick |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781412819176 |
Catastrophe and Imagination explores fiction in America and England from 1870 to 1950, measuring the impact of the twentieth century's wars on the literary imagination. McCormick holds that the novel has a unique relationship to society, and defines this in relation to the many catastrophes of his era - wars, revolutions, and other outrages on the social order. After an initial survey of society in the novels of Jane Austen, Dickens, and Thackeray, to name only a few, he analyzes what the novel is not, with reference to the work of Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, and D. H. Lawrence.
Author | : Paul Theroux |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780618126934 |
Whether it is trekking through the icy Maine woods, or journeying to a remote island in the South Pacific where the first atomic bombs were detonated, Theroux serves as both camera and the eye. This collection of essays and articles is the ultimate good read for anyone fascinated by travel.
Author | : Patrick Swinden |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 1984-08-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349175129 |
Author | : Harry Blamires |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2021-06-23 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1000287645 |
First published in 1983, A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is a detailed and comprehensive guide containing over 500 entries on individual writers from countries including Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the UK. The book contains substantial articles relating to major novelists, poets, and dramatists of the age, as well as a wealth of information on the work of lesser-known writers and the part they have played in cultural history. It focuses in detail on the character and quality of the literature itself, highlighting what is distinctive in the work of the writers being discussed and providing key biographical and contextual details. A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is ideal for those with an interest in the twentieth century literary scene and the history of literature more broadly.
Author | : George Stade |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2010-05-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438116896 |
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.
Author | : Christine L. Krueger |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 881 |
Release | : 2014-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438108702 |
This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets
Author | : M.C. Rintoul |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1202 |
Release | : 2014-03-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113611940X |
Fascinating and comprehensive in scope, the Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction is a valuable source for both students and teachers of literature, and for those interested in locating the facts behind the fiction they read. In a single, scholarly volume, it provides intriguing insight into the real identity of people and places in the novels of over 300 American and British authors published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author | : Dean R. Baldwin |
Publisher | : Boston, Mass. : Twayne Publishers |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Studie ovet werk van de Engelse schrijver (geb. 1900)