A Cab at the Door (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: V. S. Pritchett
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1900-1919
- Setting: England
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Family or family life, Authors or writers, Education or educators, Manners or customs, Social life, City life, Biography, Great Britain
Form and Content
In this, the first volume of his memoirs, V. S. Pritchett—novelist, short-story writer, travel writer, critic, and essayist—recounts the first twenty years of his life, which coincided with the opening years of the twentieth century. Further installments are Midnight Oil (1971) and The Turn of the Years (1982).
Pritchett spent these years in England. He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, the eldest son of a family teetering between the lower and the lower-middle class. Pritchett’s father had escaped from his own father, a fierce Yorkshire...
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