Title: In my good books /
Authors: Pritchett, V. S. 1900-1997
Publisher: Kennikat Press,
Year: 1970
Subjects: Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern History and criticism
Contents: Preface -- Gibbon and the home guard -- A conscript -- A Swiss novel -- The first detective -- Germinal -- Sofa and cheroot -- A Russian Byron -- A comic novel -- A hero of our own time -- Faits divers -- The clown -- The nobodies -- A Victorian misalliance -- The first and last of Hardy -- A curate's diary -- The great flunkey -- The south goes north -- The proximity of wine -- An anatomy of greatness -- The dean -- The end of the Gael -- The steeple house spires -- One of our founders -- The American puritan -- The Quaker coquette -- List of works referred to in text.