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1999 Modern Library Paperback Edition

Biographical note copyright © 1997 by Random House, Inc.

Copyright © 1997 by The Estate of V. S. Pritchett

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This work was originally published in hardcover by the Modern Library in 1997.

Portion of this work were originally published in At Home and Abroad, New York Proclaimed, Dublin: A Portrait, and Mr. Beluncle.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: “In Memoriam: V. S. Pritchett” by John Bayley originally appeared in The London Review of Books. Copyright © 1997 by The London Review of Books. Reprinted by permission.

PETERS FRASER & DUNLOP GROUP LTD. : Chapters 1 and 5 from The Spanish Temper by V. S. Pritchett; Chapter 10 from Marching Spain by V. S. Pritchett; Chapter 8 from Foreign Faces by V. S. Pritchett; “Sense of Humour,” “The Evils of Spain,” “The Oedipus Complex,” “Things as They Are,” “When My Girl Comes Home,” “The Liars,” “The Camberwell Beauty,” “Did You Invite Me?” “The Marvellous Girl,” “The Vice-Consul,” “The Fig Tree,” “Cocky Olly,” and “The Image Trade” from The Complete Short Stories of V. S. Pritchett; Chapter 10 from Dead Man Leading by V. S. Pritchett. All essays reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop Group Ltd.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: “Looking Back at Eighty” by V. S. Pritchett from the December 14, 1980, issue of The New York Times. Copyright © 1980 by the New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.

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: “The American Puritan,” “Clarissa,” “Scott,” “Edwin Drood,” “The Living Novel,” “Poor Relations,” “The Russian Day,” “The Notebooks of Henry James,” “Boswell’s London,” “The Unhappy Traveller,” “The Performing Lynx,” “Meredith’s Brainstuff,” “Quixote’s Translators,” “The Despot,” “The Myth Makers,” “The Con-Man’s Shadow,” “Jumbos,” “The Sayings of Don Geraldo,” “Irish Behaviour,” “A Better Class of Person,” and “Midnight’s Children” from The Complete Collected Essays by V. S. Pritchett, copyright © 1992 by V. S. Pritchett; Chapter 3 from The Gentle Barbarian by V. S. Pritchett, copyright © 1977 by V. S. Pritchett; Chapter 8 from Chekhov by V. S. Pritchett, copyright © 1988 by V. S. Pritchett; excerpts from A Cab at the Door by V. S. Pritchett, copyright © 1968 by V. S. Pritchett; excerpts from Midnight Oil by V. S. Pritchett, copyright © 1971 by V. S. Pritchett. All material reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon), 1900–1997

The Pritchett century/V. S. Pritchett—Modern Library ed.

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eISBN: 978-0-307-55926-5

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PR6031. R7A6   1999

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