Виктор Соден Притчетт

London of the mind, the heart and the eye is displayed, discussed and dissected in this classic work of 1962 that unites the elegant prose of V.S. Pritchett and the revealing photographs of Evelyn Hofer. Here is a pithy, knowledgeable distillation of the essential London - a panorama of its history, art, literature and daily life. Here is the city that Londoners know, a paraodox of grandeur and gr...

В книгу включены произведения известных британских и американских писателей XX века. Рассказы интересны по фабуле, написаны живым разговорным языком и отличаются большим стилистическим своеобразием. Тексты рассказов подвергнуты незначительной адаптации. Книга может быть с успехом использована для аудиторных и домашних занятий в старших классах специализированных школ, гимназий и лицеев, а так...

In the spring of 1927, V.S. Pritchett set out to walk 300 miles across Spain. At that time the country was almost completely isolated: many of the people he met had never seen a foreigner before. Yet despite their poverty, they received their odd English visitor, in his outlandish tweeds, was unfailing courtesy, hospitality and curiosity. Marching Spain is a vivid portrait of a timeless Spain, abo...

“In his daily walks through London,” notes Jeremy Treglown in his Introduction to this collection, “Pritchett watched and listened to people as a naturalist observes wild creatures and birds. He knew that oddity is the norm, not the exception.” This finely attuned sense, coupled with an understanding that nothing in life is mundane, is what makes these stories so immensely enjoyable. Drawing on a ...

“If, as they say, I am a Man of Letters, I come, like my fellows, at the tail-end of a long and once esteemed tradition in English and American writing. We have no captive audience. We do not teach. We write to be readable and to engage the interest of what Virginia Woolf called ‘the common reader.'” In a life that spanned almost the entire course of the twentieth century—he was born in 1900 an...