Jan 7, 2010

A Cab at the Door | A Cab at the Door

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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

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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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A Cab at the Door | A Cab at the Door

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