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The tale bearers : literary essays / V. S. Pritchett.
LIBRA PR823 .P7
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon), 1900-1997.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Authors, English--Biography.
- Authors, English.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, 1980.
- Contents:
- English. Max Beerbohm : a dandy ; E.F. Benson : fairy tales ; Rider Haggard : still riding ; Rudyard Kipling : a pre-Raphaelite's son ; Joseph Conrad : a moralist of exile ; T.E. Lawrence : the aesthete in war ; E.M. Forster : the private voice ; Graham Greene : disloyalties ; Evelyn Waugh : club and country ; Angus Wilson : going downhill ; Henry Green : in the echo chamber
- Americans. Henry James : birth of a hermaphrodite ; Edmund Wilson : towards revolution ; Saul Bellow : jumbos ; Mary McCarthy : a quiet American ; Flannery O'Connor : Satan comes to Georgia
- Characters. Samuel Pepys : the great snail ; Jonathan Swift : the infantilism of genius ; Richard Burton : Ruffian Dick ; Frederick Rolfe : the crab's shell
- Exotics. Lady Murasaki : the tale of Genji ; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala : snares and delusions ; Flann O'Brien : Flann v. Finn.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 221-223.
- ISBN:
- 0394504860 :
- OCLC:
- 5830113
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