Pritchett

Your influences include William Trevor, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dickens, Graham Greene, V.S. Pritchett, and Elizabeth Bowen.

Julie Bowen already has won two Emmys for her performance as hilariously frazzled mom Claire Pritchett on Modern Family.

A short-story writer (his “The Evils of Spain” could be read along with this book), Pritchett was a master of compression.

There is no doubt that Gloria Pritchett is singular among TV characters, and Vergara is capitalizing on that.

If you will ask Pritchett too, you will find that your father is not the best correspondent in the world.

Mr. Pritchett told him that his brother was better—considerably better.

Mr. Pritchett had a somewhat melancholy way of speaking of everything.

I'm sure, Mr. Pritchett, I'm very much obliged for the trouble you are at in telling me.

Most of the views given in this work are from sketches made on the spot by Mr. Pritchett, with Mr. Darwin's book by his side.