A Man of Letters: Selected Essays

Victor Sawdon Pritchett was born in 1900 and according to Anthony Burgess became "Our best literary critic". A Man of Letters is a long-awaited collection of forty-six critical essays drawn from his contributions to The new Statesman, The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and from his first book of Essays, written during WWII and no longer available. He said of himself that he was not a product of English Lit., who "found myself less a critic than an imaginative traveler or explorer ... was traveling in literature." This description may be from another edition of this product.