V. S. Pritchett (1900–1997)
Autor/a de The Oxford Book of Short Stories
Sobre l'autor
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'n més 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'n menys
Obres de V. S. Pritchett
Why Do I Write?: An Exchange of Views Between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene and V.S.Pritchett (English Literature… (1948) 6 exemplars
This England 5 exemplars
It May Never Happen and Other Stories 4 exemplars
The sailor, Sense of humour, and other stories 3 exemplars
The Camberwell Beauty 1 exemplars
The Sailor (England Versus England) 1 exemplars
Upstairs, Downstairs [short fiction] 1 exemplars
The Voice [short story] 1 exemplars
You Make Your own Life 1 exemplars
Clare Drummer 1 exemplars
The Humming Poet 1 exemplars
Just a Little More [short story] — Autor — 1 exemplars
This England [1937] 1 exemplars
Handsome Is As Handsome Does 1 exemplars
The Spree 1 exemplars
The Saint 1 exemplars
A Story of Don Juan 1 exemplars
Many Are Disappointed 1 exemplars
A New World 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Tres Homes Dins D'una Barca (Sense comptar-hi el gos) (1889) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 7,511 exemplars
The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1972) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 116 exemplars
Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1993) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
Selected Shorts: Food Fictions (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2007) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Modern books and writers : the catalogue of an exhibition held at Seven Albemarle Street, April to September 1951 (1951) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Pritchett, Sir Victor Sawdon
- Data de naixement
- 1900-12-16
- Data de defunció
- 1997-03-20
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
USA
London, England, UK
Woodford, Essex, England, UK
Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK
Sedbergh, England, UK - Educació
- St John's School, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Alleyn’s School
Dulwich College, London, England, UK - Professions
- novelist
short-story writer
critic - Organitzacions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1971)
- Premis i honors
- Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature
Order of the British Empire (Commander)
Knight Bachelor (1975)
Order of the Companions of Honour (1993)
Golden PEN Award (1994)
Membres
Ressenyes
The Oxford Book Of Short Stories (Oxford Books Of… de V. S. Pritchett
41 stories from Sor Walter Scott to John Updike
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.
Critique of 46 fiction writers including Americans Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Henry James,
Nathanial West, and S. J. Perelman.
Nathanial West, and S. J. Perelman.
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.… (més)
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.… (més)
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