Midnight Oil by Pritchett, V. S. (Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett) - 1972

New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1972. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "It is 1921. With twenty pounds in his pocket, the author has arrived in Paris to commence the literary career whose development will become the subject of Midnight Oil." "Pritchett was a leather buyer from 1916 until 1920 when he moved to Paris to work as a shop assistant. In 1923 he started writing for The Christian Science Monitor, which sent him to Ireland and Spain. From 1926 he wrote reviews for that paper and for the New Statesman, later being appointed its literary editor. Pritchett's first book, Marching Spain (1928) , describes a journey across Spain, and his second book, Clare Drummer (1929) , is about his experiences in Ireland. While he was there he met Evelyn Vigors, the woman who became his first wife. Theirs was not a happy marriage. Pritchett published five novels, but he said he did not enjoy writing them. His reputation was established by a collection of short stories, The Spanish Virgin and Other Stories (1932)." .