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)