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Book ID/图书代码： 06580009B34160

English Summary/英文概要： When My Girl Comes Home
A Sense of Humor
The Camberwell Beauty
The Fly in the Ointment
The Evils of Spain
The Oedipus Complex
Things as They Are
The Liars
Did You Invite Me?
The Marvelous Girl
The Vice-Consul
The Fig Tree
Cocky Olly
The Image Trade
此书为短篇集，包括上面14个故事

Chinese Summary/中文概要：

Awards/获奖情况：To bring out Pritchett’s 80-odd stories, written over more than 50 years, in one huge and handsome volume of 1200 pages is a magnificent gesture. For those unfamiliar with this side of the celebrated critic’s work, his stories are remarkable: crisp, exquisitely written and inimitably English in their delight in quirky character, their aliveness to social nuance and their unerring sense of setting. What is particularly striking, seeing them all together, from stories published in 1938 to those written in the late ’80s, is their consistency. Pritchett’s sense of human variety, the certainty with which he sets the scene and his utter confidence in his material never falters, and one would be hard put, on stylistic evidence, to assign dates to most of the stories. Naturally, they reflect the passing scene: there are wonderfully comic and poignant wartime stories, dour postwar elegies and evocations of ’60s bohemia. Pritchett is equally at home in London pubs and country houses, and loves eccentric occupations like antique dealing: "The Camberwell Beauty" has to be the best story ever written about it. Pritchett’s work is always to scale; sometimes a story, like "Blind Love" or "On the Edge of the Cliff," expands to novella length; sometimes, as in "The Voice," it is a sketch unforgettably concluded in a few pages. As a body of work, Pritchett’s stories can stand comparison with any others written in the century.---From Publishers Weekly

Over the last 60-plus years, Pritchett has produced an extensive body of work, including five novels, three biographies, eight volumes of literary criticism, seven volumes of travel writing, and 82 short stories. It is for the latter that he is best known, and deservedly so. A master of characterization and the use of language, he focuses mostly on the British lower middle classes, using their idiosyncrasies to expose, in low-key fashion, truths more universal in scope. Pritchett is an important figure in 20th-century English literature, and a sampling of his work should be available in all libraries. But while having all the stories available in one place may be useful, the massiveness of this collection is likely to intimidate general readers unfamiliar with Pritchett’s work. Public libraries may find Collected Stories ( LJ 4/15/82) and More Collected Stories ( LJ 8/83) to be sufficient and more user friendly. On the other hand, academic and larger public libraries seeking comprehensiveness will probably want this volume.---David W. Henderson, Eckerd Coll. Lib., St. Petersburg, Fla., From Library Journal

About the Author/作者介绍： V.S. Pritchett, who died in 1997, was one of Britain’s foremost short story writers, autobiographers and journalists. A selection from his most remarkable work, THE PRITCHETT CENTURY is published by Vintage. Evelyn Hofer was born in 1937 and emigrated from Germany to New York as a young woman. She has worked with writers such as Jan Morris and Mary McCarthy and exhibited frequently in both Europe and the USA.

Format:HARDCOVER

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