| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
223 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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 -- Flan O'Brien: Flann v. Finn. |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Authors, English -- Biography.
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Authors, English -- Biography. |
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Roman anglais -- Histoire et critique. |
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Roman américain -- Histoire et critique. |
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Écrivains anglais -- Biographies. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon), 1900-1997. Tale bearers. 1st American ed. New York : Random House, c1980 (OCoLC)564973611 |
| ISBN |
0394504860 : $10.00 |
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9780394504865 |
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