V.S. Pritchett books

The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of Turgenev (1986)

Essential Stories (2007)

I was working new ground and I decided I’d stay at the hotel the weekend and put in an appearance at church.“All alone?” asked the girl in the cash desk.It had been raining since ten o’clock.“Mr. Good has gone,” she said. “And Mr. Straker. He usually stays with us. But he’s gone.”“That’s where th...

The Pritchett Century (2012)

Pritchett FROMDublin: A Portrait VII The official commemoration of the Easter Rising has just been held in Dublin as I write. The British have astonished Dubliners by regarding the men of the Rising as heroes; it would be easy to say about this admiration that it is one more example of the Englis...