Dublin: A Portrait (Bloomsbury Reader) by V.S. Pritchett PDF

By V.S. Pritchett

ISBN-10: 1448200741

ISBN-13: 9781448200740

ISBN-10: 1536647810

ISBN-13: 9781536647815

VS. Pritchett, grasp of the quick tale, is additionally the main evocative of go back and forth writers. First released in 1967, his portrait of Dublin - its prior, politics and other people, its grand mansions and curious corners - is as beguiling and eloquent because the urban itself, as he writes of the Dublin he knew within the Twenties, of visits to Sean O'Casey and Yeats (brandishing a teapot in his rage at Shaw) and of the altering urban 40 years later, dealing with the long run yet nonetheless as eccentric and interesting as ever.

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