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1	The crack-up more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $10.21! \| first editions \| SVS
2	To the Finland Station more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.75! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Memoirs of Hecate County more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History more books like this by Edmund Wilson see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 more books like this by 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.80! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Apologies to the Iroquois more books like this by Edmund Wilson see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War more books like this by 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. see all copies from $4.50! new only from $11.91! \| first editions \| SVS
8	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 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 $6.00! new only from $21.18! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York more books like this by Edmund Wilson see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.37! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s: The Shores of Light/Axel's Castle/Uncollected Reviews more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $18.95! new only from $25.87! \| SVS
11	Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972 more books like this by Edmund Wilson see all copies from $3.20! new only from $36.51! \| first editions \| SVS
12	A Window on Russia, for the Use of Foreign Readers more books like this by Edmund Wilson see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
13	The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period more books like this by Edmund Wilson see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14	The fifties more books like this by Edmund Wilson, Leon Edel see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.98! \| first editions \| SVS
15	The wound and the bow : seven studies in literature. more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $17.90! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty more books like this by Edmund Wilson see all copies from $2.84! new only from $15.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Peasants and other stories more books like this by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 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 $13.14! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $20.93! new only from $25.87! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The American Earthquake more books like this by Edmund Wilson see all copies from $3.50! new only from $29.78! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965 more books like this by Edmund Wilson see all copies from $4.25! new only from $28.49! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties more books like this by Edmund Wilson 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 $16.50! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Devils and Canon Barham: Ten Essays on Poets, Novelists and Monsters more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.84! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $2.27! new only from $8.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	Shores of Light more books like this by Edmund Wilson see all copies from $4.19! signed copies \| first editions
25	The Triple Thinkers; & the Wound and the Bow: A Combined Volume more books like this by Edmund Wilson, Frank Kermode see all copies from $6.95! first editions

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