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The crack-up
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson
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 ...
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To the Finland Station
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Edmund Wilson
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 ...
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Memoirs of Hecate County
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Edmund Wilson
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 ...
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To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
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Edmund Wilson
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Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
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Edmund Wilson
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.
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Apologies to the Iroquois
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Edmund Wilson
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
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Edmund Wilson
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.
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Europe Without Baedeker: Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England, Together with Notes from a European Diary: 1963-1964
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Edmund Wilson
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 ...
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Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York
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Edmund Wilson
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Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s: The Shores of Light/Axel's Castle/Uncollected Reviews
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Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972, but he was also far more than that: a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, a probing observer of himself and of the society around him. With this volume and a companion volume devoted to the 30s and 40s--the first two entries in what will be a ...
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Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972
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Edmund Wilson
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A Window on Russia, for the Use of Foreign Readers
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Edmund Wilson
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The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
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Edmund Wilson
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The fifties
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Edmund Wilson, Leon Edel
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The wound and the bow : seven studies in literature.
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Edmund Wilson
The Wound and the Bow collects seven wonderful essays on the delicate theme of the relation between art and suffering by the legendary literary and social critic, Edmund Wilson(1895-1972). This welcome re-issue -- one of several -- testifies to the value publishers put on it and to a reluctance among them ever to let it stay out of print for very ...
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A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty
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Peasants and other stories
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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 ...
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Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s
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Edmund Wilson, Lewis M Dabney (Editor)
Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972, but he was also far more than that: a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, a probing observer of himself and of the society around him. With this volume and a companion volume devoted to the 30s and 40s--the first two entries in what will be a ...
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The American Earthquake
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Edmund Wilson
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The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965
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Edmund Wilson
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Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties
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Edmund Wilson
A collection of essays and criticism, all written in the 1940s, by the inimitable Edmund "Bunny" Wilson.
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The Devils and Canon Barham: Ten Essays on Poets, Novelists and Monsters
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Edmund Wilson
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 ...
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The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest
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Edmund Wilson
"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 ...
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Shores of Light
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The Triple Thinkers; & the Wound and the Bow: A Combined Volume
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Edmund Wilson, Frank Kermode
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