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V. S. Pritchett is widely - and justly - viewed not only among the finest short tale writers of this century, but as a critic and essayist of amazing range, notion and originality. Merging an unpretentious good sense with a rare genius for the illuminating insight into the familiar and the neglected likewise, his criticism is all the more valuable in a day and time in which the study of literature has become progressively arid and arcane; and unlike so many of his academic counterparts, V. S. Pritchett has always got a remarkable capability to epitomise a writer's work - and present his own eagerness for this - within the compass of a short and eminently accessible article. A Man of Letters brings together an array of his finest & most representative work from the past forty years, which range from Smollett and Peacock to Evelyn Waugh and Cyril Connolly, from Henry Wayne and Nathanael Western to Stendhal and Proust, from Nabokov and Machado de Assis to Manzoni and Dostoevsky. This smart and gleaming collection is, in itself, a prolonged tribute to one of the greatest Men of Letters of our time.
