V.S. Pritchett
From the Review
November 5, 1987: Mocking the Immemorial
Rossetti and His Circle by Max Beerbohm, a new edition with an introduction by N. John Hall
The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story by by Max Beerbohm, with 80 illustrations by the author and an introduction N. John Hall
March 12, 1987: The Magician's Trick
The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabokov
September 25, 1986: On the Verge
Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860–1865 by Joseph Frank
October 10, 1985: The Look that Freezes
John Leech and the Victorian Scene by Simon Houfe
October 25, 1984: His Angry Way
Mr Noon University Press by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Lindeth Vasey
August 16, 1984: 'A Roaring Positive Fellow'
The Letters of Anthony Trollope; Volume I, 1835–1870 Volume II, 1871–1882 edited by N. John Hall
April 12, 1984: The Solace of Intrigue
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Time After Time by Molly Keane
March 15, 1984: Surviving in the Ruins
Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir by David Pryce-Jones
The Selected Essays of Cyril Connolly edited by Peter Quennell
Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly
The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus (Cyril Connolly)
The Rock Pool by Cyril Connolly
February 2, 1984: Dostoevsky and His Double
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–1859 by Joseph Frank
October 27, 1983: The Humming Poet
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume X, Companion edited by Robert Latham, by William Matthews, compiled and edited by Robert Latham
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume XI, Index edited by Robert Latham, by William Matthews, compiled and edited by Robert Latham
July 21, 1983: Proustifications
Marcel Proust: Selected Letters (1880-1903) edited by Philip Kolb, translated by Ralph Manheim, with an introduction by J.M. Cocking
March 3, 1983: The Supreme Fairy Tale
Lectures on Don Quixote by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Fredson Bowers, preface by Reynolds Price, introduction by Guy Davenport
January 20, 1983: Make It Strange
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
August 12, 1982: Private Lives
The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, 1910-1954 complied and edited by Elliott Mossman, translated by Elliott Mossman, by Margaret Wettlin
April 15, 1982: Smoke in the Smokies (letter)
February 4, 1982: The Logic of Franz Kafka
Kafka: A Biography by Ronald Hayman
Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice by Elias Canetti, translated by Christopher Middleton
Letters to Ottla and the Family by Franz Kafka, edited by N.N. Glatzer, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
January 21, 1982: Appalachian Spring
December 3, 1981: Never-Never-Land
P.G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography by Benny Green
July 16, 1981: Demon Lover
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregor von Rezzori
May 14, 1981: The Poet-Logician
"Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903" August 9, 1981 an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 19, 1981, to
Pissarro of Fine Arts, Boston catalogue issued by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Museum
Camille Pissarro: A Catalogue of the Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Richard Brettell, by Christopher Lloyd
Pissarro: His Life and Work by Ralph E. Shikes, by Paula Harper
February 5, 1981: Semi-Heroes
Personal Impressions by Isaiah Berlin
November 20, 1980: Temperament of Genius
The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. VI, 1936-1941 edited by Nigel Nicolson, edited by Joanne Trautmann
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. III, 1925-1930 edited by Anne Olivier Bell, with Andrew McNeillie
September 25, 1980: Laughter in the Dark
The History of a Town by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated by I.P. Foote
August 14, 1980: Displaced Person
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography by Jean Rhys
June 12, 1980: A Fine Rough English Diamond
Graphic Works of George Cruikshank selected and with an introduction and notes by Richard A. Vogler
May 29, 1980: Contradictory Lawrence
The Life of D.H. Lawrence by Keith Sagar
May 1, 1980: Doomed for Success
Orwell: The Transformation by Peter Stansky, by William Abrahams
April 3, 1980: Love and Hate
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857 selected, edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller
February 7, 1980: A Spy Romance
Smiley's People by John le Carré
January 24, 1980: Shredded Novels
In Between the Sheets and Other Stories by Ian McEwan
From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant
November 8, 1979: Finite Variety
The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age by Ronald Blythe
September 27, 1979: Playing Stendhal
A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal by Robert Alter, in collaboration with Carol Cosman
August 16, 1979: How D'you Do? (letter)
July 19, 1979: The Ten-Year-Old Man
Dickens: A Life by Norman MacKenzie, by Jeanne MacKenzie
June 14, 1979: Pain and Laughter
The Best of Sholom Aleichem edited by Irving Howe, edited by Ruth Wisse
May 17, 1979: Upmanship
Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis
April 19, 1979: Explosions of Conscience
Lovers of Their Time and Other Stories by William Trevor
February 22, 1979: Moralist of Exile
Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives by Frederick R. Karl
January 25, 1979: The Sayings of Don Geraldo
Thoughts in a Dry Season by Gerald Brenan
December 7, 1978: Contradictory Kipling
Rudyard Kipling by Lord Birkenhead
October 12, 1978: Character
E.M. Forster: A Life by P.N. Furbank
August 17, 1978: The Disconcerting Sybil
Mauprat by George Sand, with an introduction by Diane Johnson
Lélia by George Sand, translated with an introduction by Maria Espinosa
The Companion of the Tour of France by George Sand, translated by Francis George Shaw
The Haunted Pool by George Sand, translated by Frank Hunter Potter
May 18, 1978: Live Souls
Russia in Original Photographs 1860-1920 by Marvin Lyons, edited by Andrew Wheatcroft
March 9, 1978: A Gentle-Violent Man
The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Works by Angus Wilson
February 23, 1978: The Incurable
Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors by Franz Kafka, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
November 10, 1977: The Passions of Emile Zola
The Life and Times of Emile Zola by F.W.J. Hemmings
October 13, 1977: Lear's Inner Landscape
Nonsense and Wonder: The Poems and Cartoons of Edward Lear by Thomas Byrom
September 15, 1977: Invader
Rebecca West: A Celebration help, with a critical introduction by selected from her writings by her publishers with her Samuel Hynes
July 14, 1977: The Romantic Camera
Nadar by Nigel Gosling
June 23, 1977: Pleasures of Malice
Make Way for Lucia: The Complete Lucia by E.F. Benson
June 9, 1977: Nabokov's Game
Nabokov: His Life in Part by Andrew Field
May 26, 1977: How to Say Serious Things
Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays 1973-1976 by Gore Vidal
April 14, 1977: Comic Genius
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, translated by Celina Wieniewska, with an introduction by Jerzy Ficowski
March 17, 1977: Turgenev and 'Virgin Soil'
February 17, 1977: Turgenev in Baden
February 3, 1977: Broken Blossoms
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
November 11, 1976: The Dostoevsky Labyrinth
Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt by Joseph Frank
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin, translated by R. W. Rotsel
Dostoevsky and His Devils by Václav Cerny, translated by F. W. Galan, with an afterword by Josef Skvorecky
April 15, 1976: Suntan
Children of the Sun by Martin Green
April 1, 1976: The Aesthete of War
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by John E. Mack
October 30, 1975: The Dostoevskys
Dostoevsky: Reminiscences by Anna Dostoevsky, translated and edited by Beatrice Stillman, with an introduction by Helen Muchnic
July 17, 1975: Jane Austen's Militant Comedy
Jane Austen by Douglas Bush
Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays edited by John Halperin
Sanditon by Jane Austen. Another Lady
November 28, 1974: Nabokov's Touch
Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov
Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov
October 3, 1974: Rogue Poet
Lord Rochester's Monkey by Graham Greene
August 8, 1974: Simone Says…
All Said and Done by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Patrick O'Brian
May 2, 1974: Pioneer
The Book, the Ring, and the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning by William Irvine, by Park Honan
March 7, 1974: Saint of Inertia
Oblomov and His Creator: The Life and Art of Ivan Goncharov by Milton Ehre
November 29, 1973: Who Killed Lorca
The Death of Lorca by Ian Gibson
October 18, 1973: Expensive Eternity
Père-Lachaise: Elysium as Real Estate text and photographs by Frederick Brown
June 28, 1973: Hearing from Chekhov
The Letters of Anton Chekhov edited and translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, with the assistance of Babette Deutsch
The Letters of Anton Chekhov selected and edited by Simon Karlinsky, translated by Michael Henry Heim, in collaboration with Simon Karlinsky
March 22, 1973: Bang!
Getting Married by August Strindberg, translated and edited with an introduction by Mary Sandbach
February 22, 1973: Balzac at Thirty
January 25, 1973: The Ancient Child
A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm by Rupert Hart-Davis
A Peep into the Past and Other Prose Pieces by Max Beerbohm, collected and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis
The Lies of Art: Max Beerbohm's Parody and Caricature by John Felstiner
Max in Verse: Rhymes and Parodies by Max Beerbohm, edited by J.G. Riewald
November 2, 1972: The Strength of an Injured Spirit
Mary Wollstonecraft by Eleanor Flexner
The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson
July 20, 1972: Growing Old
The Coming of Age by Simone de Beauvoir
March 23, 1972: Late Starter
February 24, 1972: Genesis
Glory by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dimitri Nabokov. in collaboration with the author
The Scorpion God by William Golding
January 27, 1972: Among the Irish
October 7, 1971: The Old Stone House
Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York by Edmund Wilson
July 1, 1971: Clowns
Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
June 3, 1971: Ironical Aviary
Birds of America by Mary McCarthy
January 28, 1971: Don Borges
The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969 by Jorge Luis Borges, translated and edited by Norman Thomas di Giovanni
October 22, 1970: The Craving Void
Lord Byron's Cain: Twelve Essays and a Text with Variants and Annotations by Truman Guy Steffan
The Uninhibited Byron by Bernard Grebanier
Byron: A Portrait by Leslie A. Marchand
July 23, 1970: Street Actions
Children's Games in Street and Playground by Iona Opie, by Peter Opie
May 7, 1970: Ghosts
The Estate by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer
A Beggar in Jerusalem by Elie Wiesel
April 9, 1970: Iron Comedian
The Mandarin and Other Stories by Eca de Queiroz, translated by Richard Franko Goldman
The City and the Mountains by Eça de Queiroz, translated by Roy Campbell
The Illustrious House of Ramires by Eça de Queiroz, translated by Ann Stevens
February 26, 1970: The Tristesse of the Incurable
Funeral Rites by Jean Genet, translated by Bernard Frechtman
The Vision of Jean Genet by Richard N. Coe
November 6, 1969: The Self-Inventing Man
Stendhal by Wallace Fowlie
Stendhal: Fiction and the Themes of Freedom by Victor Brombert
Stendhal: Notes on a Novelist by Robert M. Adams
The Novel of Worldliness by Peter Brooks
July 31, 1969: Five Minutes of Life
The Lonely Years 1925-1939 by Isaac Babel, edited by Nathalie Babel, translated by Andrew R. MacAndrew
You Must Know Everything: Stories 1915-1937 by Isaac Babel, edited and with Notes by Nathalie Babel, translated by Max Hayward
July 10, 1969: A Polished Dissenter
Collected Essays including The Lost Childhood by Graham Greene
May 22, 1969: Tristes Tropiques
Strong Wind by Miguel Angel Asturias
The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa
March 13, 1969: Publishing Solzhenitsyn (letter)
February 27, 1969: Formidable Miniature
Alexander Pope: The Education of Genius 1688-1728 by Peter Quennell
December 19, 1968: Hell on Earth
The First Circle by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P. Whitney
The Cancer Ward David Burg, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in February) by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, translated by Rebecca Frank
April 11, 1968: Crack-Up
The Mimic Men by V.S. Naipaul
A Flag on the Island by V.S. Naipaul
January 18, 1968: Ventriloquists
No Laughing Matter by Angus Wilson
Poor Cow by Nell Dunn
December 21, 1967: An Edwardian Dropout
December 7, 1967: Blunt Relations
November 23, 1967: The Autodidacts
June 1, 1967: Omission (letter)
April 20, 1967: Troubadour
The Novels of Flaubert: A Study of Themes and Techniques by Victor Brombert
Intimate Notebook 1840-1841 by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Francis Steegmuller
The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Jacques Barzun
November by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Frank Jellinek, edited by Francis Steegmuller
December 15, 1966: Orwell "in Life"
The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell by George Woodcock
September 22, 1966: A Pariah
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
July 28, 1966: Balzac the Great
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac by André Maurois, translated by Norman Denny
March 17, 1966: True to Life
Selections from London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew, edited by John L. Bradley
September 30, 1965: Exuberant Victorians
Victorian Cities by Asa Briggs
May 20, 1965: Maxim Gorki
Stormy Petrel by Dan Levin
October 22, 1964: King Saul
Herzog by Saul Bellow
May 28, 1964: Wyndham Lewis
The Letters of Wyndham Lewis edited by W.K. Rose
October 31, 1963: The Harlot's Progress
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Books by V.S. Pritchett
The Pritchett Century (1997)
Dublin: A Portrait (1991)
The Complete Essays (1991)
The Complete Short Stories (1990)
Lasting Impressions: Essays, 1961-1987 (1990)
At Home and Abroad (1989)
A Careless Widow and Other Stories (1989)
Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free (1988)
A Man of Letters: Selected Essays (1985)
The Other Side of a Frontier: A V.S. Pritchett Reader (1984)
More Collected Stories (1983)
Collected Stories (1982)
The Turn of the Years (1982)
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981)
The Tale Bearers: Essays on English, American, and Other Writers (1980)
The Myth Makers: Essays on European, Russian, and South American Novelists (1979)
On the Edge of the Cliff: Short Stories (1979)
Selected Stories (1978)
The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of Turgenev (1977)
The Spanish Temper (1976)
The Camberwell Beauty, and Other Stories (1974)
London Perceived (1974)
Balzac (1973)
Midnight Oil (1971)
George Meredith and English Comedy (1970)
In My Good Books (1970)
Blind Love, and Other Stories (1969)
A Cab at the Door (1968)
Books in General (1953)
Dead Man Leading (1949)
The Living Novel (1946)