Title: Lasting impressions : essays, 1961-1987 /
Authors: Pritchett, V. S. 1900-1997
Publisher: Random House,
Year: 1990
Subjects: English literature History and criticism
Contents: Pain and laughter / Sholom Aleichem -- Five minutes of life / Isaac Babel -- Growing old / Simone de Beauvoir -- The sayings of Don Geraldo / Gerald Brenan -- Pioneer / Robert Browning -- Welsh peasants / Bruce Chatwin -- Spectators / Flaubert & Turgenev -- Universal man / Humboldt -- Irish behaviour / Molly Keane -- Medieval voices / Le Roy Ladurie -- The death of Lorca / Lorca -- Malraux and Picasso / Andre Malraux -- The romantic agony / Thomas Mann -- Iran and Pakistan / V.S. Naipaul -- The crystal spirit / George Orwell -- A better class of person / John Osborne -- Clowns / Walker Percy -- Escaping from Belfast / Forrest Reid -- Midnight's children / Salman Rushdie -- Lost in the stars / Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- Comic genius / Bruno Schulz -- The stamp of the puritan / Bernard Shaw -- Getting richer / John Updike -- One of nature's Balkans / Rebecca West -- An Anglo-Irishman / Oscar Wilde -- Never-never-land / P.G. Wodehouse -- The strength of an injured spirit / Mary Wollstonecraft.