V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) was one of the most subtle, potent\nand best-loved of modern British writers, an unparalleled\nstory-teller and biographer. This engrossing and lively volume,\nedited by his son, is a tribute to a lifetime of writing. He looks\nback to his childhood and youth in extracts from his\nautobiographies A CAB AT THE DOOR and MIDNIGHT OIL. His vivid\ntravel writings take us from the Appalachians and Amazonia to\nIreland and the south of Spain. He writes with great insight about\nthe lives of authors he loves: Chekov, Turgenev, Balzac - and his\nwitty and sensitive criticism illuminates writers both classic and\ncontemporary, from Scott, Kipling and George Eliot, to Saul Bellow\nand Salman Rushdie. Finally the volume contains extracts from his\nnovels and the best of the superb short stories

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