Midnight Oil (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: V. S. Pritchett
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1921 to the late 1940’s
- Setting: London, Paris, Ireland, Spain, and southern England
- Principal Characters: V. S. Pritchett, Walter Pritchett, Beatrice Martin Pritchett, Dorothy Rudge Roberts Pritchett
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing
- Subjects: Language or languages, Self-discovery, Authors or writers, World War II, Ambition, Lifestyles, Work or workers
Form and Content
V.S. Pritchett wrote Midnight Oil in his seventieth year. It is the second volume of his autobiography, a sequel to A Cab at the Door, which was published in both England and the United States in 1968 while he was a visiting professor at Brandeis University. This earlier volume deals with the period between the author’s birth and his twentieth year; Midnight Oil takes up the story in 1921 with Pritchett’s arrival in Paris, armed with twenty pounds sterling and the determination to become a writer. It recounts episodes in his life until...
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