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Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett

Male : Novelist, Critic & Biographer
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Ipswich, Suffolk

Date of Birth : 1900 Date of Death : 1997 Age : 96

Other Work : Journalist

Education : Alleyn's School
1928-1930
Marching Spain
(1928 Benn)
Clare Drummer
(1929 Benn) - 1st Novel
The Spanish Virgin & Other Stories
(1930 Benn)

1931-1940
Shirley Sanz
(1932 Gollancz) (in US as "Elopement Into Exile" 1932 Little Brown)
Nothing Like Leather
(1935 Chatto & Windus) (1935 Macmillan US)
Dead Man Leading
(1937 C & W) (1937 Macmillan US)
(Ed) This England (1937 New Statesman & Nation) - David Low
You Make Your Own Life
(1938 C & W) - ss
(Ed) This England 2 (1940 New Statesman & Nation) - David Low

1941-1960
In My Good Books
(1942 C & W)
It May Never Happen & Other Stories
(1945 C & W) (1947 Reynal)
(Ed) Novels & Stories of R L Stevenson (1945 Pilot Press)
Build the Ships
(1946 HMSO)
The Living Novel
(1946 C & W)
Why Do I Write ? : An Exchange between Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen
& V S Pritchett
(1948 Percival Marshall)
Turnstile One : A Literary Miscellany from the New Statesman
(1948 Turnstile Press)
Mr Beluncle
(1951 C & W) (1951 Harcourt Brace)
Books in General
(1953 C & W)
The Spanish Temper
(1954 C & W) (1954 Knopf)
Collected Stories
(1956 C & W 20/-)
The Sailor, The Sense of Humour & Other Stories
(1956 Knopf)

1961-1970
When My Girl Comes Home
(1961 C & W) (1961 Knopf) - ss
London Perceived
(1962 C & W) - photographs by Evelyn Hofer
The Key to My Heart : A Comedy in 3 Parts
(1963 C & W) (1964 Random House) - Paul Hogarth
Christmas with the Cratchits
(1964 Berkeley CA)
Foreign Faces
(1964 C & W)
The Working Novelist
(1965 C & W)
New York Proclaimed
(1965 NY) - photos by Evelyn Hoffer
The Saint & Other Stories
(1966 Penguin)
Dublin : A Portrait
(1967 Bodley Head £4.4s) - hotographs by Evelyn Hofer
A Cab at the Door : Childhood and Youth1900-1920
(1968 C & W) (1968 RH) - autobiography vol 1
Blind Love & Other Stories
(1969 C & W) (1970 RH)
George Meredith and English Comedy
(1970 C & W)

1971-1980
Midnight Oil
(1971 C & W) (1972 RH) - autobiography vol 2
Balzac
(1973 C & W)
The Camberwell Beauty & Other Stories
(1974 C & W) (1974 RH)
Autobiography : An Address to the English Association
(1977 English Assoc Pamphlet)
The Gentle Barbarian : The Life & Work of Turgenev
(1977 C & W)
Selected Stories
(1978 C & W) (1978 RH)
On the Edge of the Cliff & Other Stories
(1979 RH) (1980 C & W)
The Myth Makers : Essays on European, Russian & S American Novelists
(1979 C & W)
The Tale Bearers : Essyas on English, American and Other Writers
(1980 C & W £6.50)

After 1981
(Ed) The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981 OUP)
The Turn of the Years
(1982 Michael Russell) - Reynolds Stone. Ltd Ed 150 signed copies
Collected Stories
(1982 RH) (1982 C & W)
More Collected Stories
(1983 RH) (1983 C & W)
The Other Side of the Frontier : A VS Pritchett Reader
(1984 Robin Clark pb)
A Man of Letters : Essays
(1985 C & W)
Chekhov : A Spirit Set Free
(1988 C & W)
At Home & Abroad : Essays
(1989 C & W)
A Careless Widow & Other Stories
(1990 C & W £12.95) (1989 RH)
Lasting Impressions : Essays 1961-1987
(1990 C & W)
Complete Short Stories
(1990 C & W) (in US as "Complete Collected Stories" 1991 RH)
Complete Essays
(1991 C & W)
(Ed) Oliver Pritchett : The Pritchett Century (1998 Chatto & Windus £25)

READING
Jeremy Treglown : V S Pritchett - A Working Life
(2004 Chatto & Windus £25)

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