The myth makers

V. S. Pritchett

earliest edition we have, 1979 Random House, 1979 190 pages

The Myth Makers is the first volume of essays in fifteen years by V.S. Prichett, a literary critic. The Myth Makers gives us profound "re-views" of such literary masters as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekov, Flaubert, Stendhal, Zola, George Sand, Machado de Assis, Strindberg, Kafka, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Borges, and Garcia Marquez, among others. Each essay featured illuminates the interplay between the life and work of...

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The myth makers edition · 1981 · Vintage Books · 190 pages
The mythmakers edition · 1979 · Random House · 190 pages
The myth makers edition · 1979 · Chatto and Windus · 190 pages

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