| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
xii, 305 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
British: Henry Fielding : An anatomy of greatness. Samuel Richardson : Clarissa. Laurence Sterne : Tristam Shandy. Thomas Day : The crank. Walter Scott : The heart of Midlothian. Amelia Opie : The Quaker coquette. Lord Byron : Letters. Thomas Love Peacock : The proximity of wine. George Cruikshank : A rough English diamond. R.S. Surtees : The brutal chivalry. Charles Dickens : Oliver Twist. George Eliot : Warwickshire. Lewis Carroll : Letters. Anthony Trollope : Trollope was right. Ford Maddox Ford : Fordie. Arnold Bennett : The five towns. E.M. Forster : Mr. Forster's birthday. Evelyn Waugh : Club and country. Virginia Woolf : Temperament of genius. Max Beerbohm : A dandy. Joseph Conrad : Conrad and destiny. Cyril Connolly : Among the ruins -- American: Edith Wharton : New York, 1900. Mark Twain : The American Puritan. William Faulkner : The hill-billies. Henry James : The last letters. Nathaniel West : Miss Lonelyhearts. S.J. Perelman : The con-man's shadow -- European: Le Sage : Sofa and cheroot. Honore de Balzac : La couisine Bette. George Sand : And Lelia. Benjamin Constant : A Swiss novel. Stendhal : Playing Stendhal. Marcel Proust : Proustifications. Albert Camus : Albert Camus. Camille Pissarro : Camille Pissarro. Francisco Jose de Goya : Goya. Vladimir Nabokov : The supreme fairy tale. Eça de Queiroz : A Portugese diplomat. Machado de Assis : A Brazilian. Alexander Pushkin : Stories. Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov : A hero of our time. Fyodor Dostoevsky : Dostoevsky's wife. Ivan Turgenev : Turgenev in Baden. Robert Musil : A Viennese. Alessandro Manzoni : I promessi sposi. |
| Subject |
Books -- Reviews.
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Books. |
| Genre/Form |
Reviews.
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| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- Book reviews.
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Literature, Modern -- Book reviews. |
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Literature, Modern. |
| Genre/Form |
Reviews.
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Book reviews.
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Book reviews.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon), 1900-1997. Man of letters. 1st American ed. New York : Random House, c1985 (OCoLC)564111728 |
| ISBN |
0394549821 |
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9780394549828 |
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