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Author | : Edmund Wilson |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0374600260 |
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Author | : Edmund Wilson |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0374600260 |
Author | : Lewis M. Dabney |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 967 |
Release | : 2005-08-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1466810440 |
From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilson went on to write three classics of literary and intellectual history (Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, and Patriotic Gore), searching reportage, and criticism that has outlasted many of its subjects. Wilson documented his unruly private life--a formative love affair with Edna St. Vincent Millay, a tempestuous marriage to Mary McCarthy, and volatile friendships with Fitzgerald and Vladimir Nabokov, among others--in openly erotic fiction and journals, but Lewis Dabney is the first writer to integrate the life and work. Dabney traces the critic's intellectual development, from son of small-town New Jersey gentry to America's last great renaissance man, a deep commentator on everything from the Russian classics to Native American rituals to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Along the way, Dabney shows why Wilson was and has remained--in his cosmopolitanism and trenchant nonconformity--a model for young writers and intellectuals, as well as the favorite critic of the general reader. Edmund Wilson will be recognized as the lasting biography of this brilliant man whose life reflected so much of the cultural, social, and human experience of a turbulent century.
Author | : Edmund Wilson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393312560 |
Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantly portrays the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans.
Author | : Edmund Wilson |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1466899670 |
In these pages, The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, the preeminent literary critic Edmund Wilson gives us perhaps the largest authentic document of the time, the dazzling observations of one of the principal actors in the American twenties. Here is the raw side of the U.S.A., the mad side of Hollywood, the literary infighting in New York, the gossip and anecdotes of an astonishing cast of characters, the jokes, the profundities, the inanities. Here is the slim young man in Greenwich Village sallying forth to parties in matching ties and socks. Here is F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Peale Bishop, H.L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, e.e. cummings, John Dos Passos and Eugene O'Neill.
Author | : Alex Beam |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | : 1101870222 |
"In 1940 Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning reviews for The New Republic, engineering a Guggenheim. Their intimate friendship blossomed over a shared interest in all things Russian, ruffled a bit by political disagreements. But then came Lolita, and suddenly Nabokov was the big (and very rich) dog. Finally the feud erupted in full when Nabokov published his hugely footnoted and virtually unreadable literal translation of Pushkin's famously untranslatable verse novel Eugene Onegin. Wilson attacked his friend's translation with hammer and tong in the New York Review of Books. Nabokov counterattacked in the same publication. Back and forth the increasingly aggressive letters volleyed until their friendship was reduced to ashes by the narcissism of small differences"--
Author | : Edmund Wilson |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : 9781590170335 |
Presents a critical and historical study of European writers and theorists of Socialism in the one hundred fifty years leading to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and discusses European socialism, anarchism, and theories of revolution.
Author | : Edmund Wilson |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780877457695 |
A young man leaves his bohemian lifestyle in Greenwich Village to pursue the chorus girl he loves.
Author | : Edmund Wilson |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1466899689 |
From one of America's greatest literary critics comes Edmund Wilson's insightful and candid record of the 1930's, The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period. Here, continuing from Wilson's previous journal, The Twenties, the narrator moves from the youthful concerns of the Jazz Age to his more substantial middle years, exploring the decade's plunge from affluence and exploring the tenets of Communism. His personal life is also amply represented, from his marriage to Margaret Canby and her subsequent tragic death to various erotic episodes with unidentified women.
Author | : Edmund Wilson |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374600104 |
From the author of To the Finland Station comes a deeply personal and incisive memoir, A Piece of My Mind. Edmund Wilson, often considered to be the greatest American literary critic of the twentieth century, reflects back on life in his sixth decade with this insightful intellectual autobiography that covers topics ranging from Religion, War, the USA, Europe, Russia, Jews, Education, Science, Sex, and much more, all examined with his characteristic wit and intelligence.
Author | : Edmund Wilson |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1466899751 |
Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Alfred Kazin later wrote, "Wilson was an original, an extraordinary literary artist . . . He could turn any literary subject back into the personal drama it had been for the writer."