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1	To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History more books like this by Edmund Wilson $2.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	To the Finland Station more books like this by Edmund Wilson $6.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This magisterial study of the revolutionary dream reaches from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to Russia in 1917, and features brilliant portraits of such figures as Jules Michelet, the great historian of the French people; the utopians Robert Owen and Charles Fourier; the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin; and Marx, Engels, Lenin, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Crack-Up more books like this by F Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson (Editor) $2.90 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Produced when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at a low point in his life, much of the contents of this compilation were written for Esquire magazine. When they appeared there in 1936, they were greeted with horror by Fitzgerald's friends, who were embarrassed for him at the public revelation of his personal difficulties, including his alcoholism, his ... see all copies from $2.86! new only from $9.97! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War more books like this by Edmund Wilson $9.73 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Edmund Wilson examines fiction and nonfiction by writers from the Civil War period, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Kate Chopin, Frederick Law Olmstead, as well as soldiers, women writers, and others from both sides of the conflict. see all copies from $3.50! new only from $62.68! \| first editions
5	Memoirs of Hecate County more books like this by Edmund Wilson $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist A favorite among his own books, Wilson's erotic and devastating portrait of the upper middle-class still holds up as a corrosive indictment of the adultery and intellectual posturing that lie at the heart of suburban America. Attacked in court when originally published in 1946 and banned in New York state for several years, "The Memoirs of Hecate ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.90! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Apologies to the Iroquois more books like this by Edmund Wilson $4.19 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This is an account of an Indian people's struggle to maintain an identity in American society. Also included is a study of "The Mohawks in High Steel" by Joseph Mitchell. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period more books like this by Edmund Wilson $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
8	The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period more books like this by Edmund Wilson, Leon Edel (Editor) $2.97 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist In Wilson's journal of the 1930's 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 death to various erotic ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
9	The American Earthquake by Edmund Wilson $6.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $3.85! new only from $26.07! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Sixtiesr more books like this by Edmund Wilson, Lewis M Dabney (Editor) $8.50 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist The Sixties, the last of Edmund Wilson's posthumously published journals, is a personal history that is also brilliant social comedy and an anatomy of the times. Edited by Wilson's biographer, this volume poignantly - and defiantly - records the final years of one of our foremost critics and writers, taking its place alongside his major works, ... see all copies from $4.46! new only from $29.70! \| first editions
11	The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965 more books like this by Edmund Wilson $2.89 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $2.74! new only from $24.89! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Peasants and other stories more books like this by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov $4.37 (new softcover, see detail) add to wishlist The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov, one of the world's greatest masters of the short story, led him in his last years to an increasingly profound exploration of the troubled depths of Russian society and life. This powerful and revealing selection from Chekhov's final works, made by the legendary ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.31! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Axel's castle; a study in the imaginative literature of 1870-1930 more books like this by Edmund Wilson $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist An early example of Wilson's powerful abilities as a literary critic, "Axel's Castle" helped establish his reputation as such. The book traces the development of the French Symbolist movement and its influence on six modern writers: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Proust, and Paul Valery. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.82! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Israel and The Dead Sea scrolls more books like this by Edmund Wilson $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 'Mr.Wilson depicts the continuing paradox of Israel: a modern republic struggling to survive in a tense Middle East against a background of Biblical history.' see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 more books like this by Edmund Wilson, Mary Gordon (Introduction by) $3.92 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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 Valery, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Alfred Kazin ... see all copies from $3.91! new only from $5.40! \| SVS
16	A Prelude: Landscapes, Characters & Conversations from the Earlier Years of My Life more books like this by Edmund Wilson $4.05 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
17 view cover	Forties - from notebooks and diaries of the period. more books like this by Edmund Wilson $8.95 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $2.86! new only from $21.15! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty more books like this by Edmund Wilson $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	Forties more books like this by Edmund Wilson, Leon Edel (Editor) $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	I thought of Daisy more books like this by Edmund Wilson $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Originally published in 1929, this is the first of three novels by Edmund Wilson, written whilst balancing his ambitions as a novelist against a career in literary criticism. The two tie together here in a depiction of a young man struggling to find his American ideal in a young chorus girl. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties more books like this by Edmund Wilson $6.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist A collection of essays and criticism, all written in the 1940s, by the inimitable Edmund "Bunny" Wilson. see all copies from $3.99! new only from $21.79! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Crack Up more books like this by Scott Fitzgerald, F Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson (Editor) $2.49 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
23 view cover	Europe Without Baedeker: Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England, Together with Notes from a European Diary: 1963-1964 more books like this by Edmund Wilson $2.60 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist In 1996 Edmund Wilson received the National Medal for Literature. awarded to "a living American author for the excellence of his total contribution to literature, " and the Emerson-Thoreau Medal "for distinguished achievement in the field of literature." In 1964 Mr. Wilson was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal, and in 1963 he was awarded the ... see all copies from $2.35! new only from $19.34! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest more books like this by Edmund Wilson $4.65 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist "The truth is that the people of the United States are at the present time dominated and driven by two kinds of officially propagated fear: fear of the Soviet Union and fear of the income tax. These two terrors have been adjusted so as to complement one another and thus to keep the citizen of our free society under the strain of a double pressure ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Devils and Canon Barham: Ten Essays on Poets, Novelists and Monsters more books like this by Edmund Wilson $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Edmund Wilson has written a new introduction to his classic study of the modern conception of history in the West, and has restored the appendices which appeared in the first edition of 1940 but were dropped from subsequent editions. The book takes its title from the scene of Lenin's arrival from Germany in April 1917, ready to take over the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.48! \| first editions \| SVS

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