Add A Dash Of Pity: Short Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
From one of the twentieth century's most brilliantly versatile minds comes Add a Dash of Pity, a collection of short stories that showcases Peter Ustinov's razor-sharp wit and boundless empathy for the human condition. Each tale presents a cast of vivid characters caught in the quietly absurd moments of everyday life — navigating social pretension, moral ambiguity, and the small, telling failures that define us — all rendered with the deft comic touch and warmth of a born storyteller. Ustinov, celebrated actor, playwright, and raconteur, brings to his fiction the same mercurial intelligence that distinguished his stage and screen work, crafting prose that is simultaneously satirical and tender. His short stories sit comfortably alongside the great traditions of British comic writing, yet carry a cosmopolitan sensibility entirely his own. Published by the prestigious house of Heinemann — with distribution spanning London, Melbourne, and Toronto — this collection stands as compelling proof that Ustinov's literary gifts were every bit as formidable as his performing ones. Readers who open its pages will find themselves wondering how a single mind could hold so much mischief and so much grace at once.
Author: Peter Ustinov
Format: Hardback
Published: 1959, Heinemann
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
From one of the twentieth century's most brilliantly versatile minds comes Add a Dash of Pity, a collection of short stories that showcases Peter Ustinov's razor-sharp wit and boundless empathy for the human condition. Each tale presents a cast of vivid characters caught in the quietly absurd moments of everyday life — navigating social pretension, moral ambiguity, and the small, telling failures that define us — all rendered with the deft comic touch and warmth of a born storyteller. Ustinov, celebrated actor, playwright, and raconteur, brings to his fiction the same mercurial intelligence that distinguished his stage and screen work, crafting prose that is simultaneously satirical and tender. His short stories sit comfortably alongside the great traditions of British comic writing, yet carry a cosmopolitan sensibility entirely his own. Published by the prestigious house of Heinemann — with distribution spanning London, Melbourne, and Toronto — this collection stands as compelling proof that Ustinov's literary gifts were every bit as formidable as his performing ones. Readers who open its pages will find themselves wondering how a single mind could hold so much mischief and so much grace at once.