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Jeffrey Meyers
This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian and novelist Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) posits, quite successfully that the subject lived a life as romantic and chaotic as his friend F…
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David Castronovo
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…
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George H. Douglas
Douglas here surveys Wilson’s mordant observations on the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, income tax, suburbia, sex, populist politics, the Vietnam War, the Great Society, the failure of American scholarship…
Edmund Wilson
Many of Wilson’s writings have been anthologized. But there is another body of work - over fifty fine essays on aspects of contemporary literature and ideas - that have been…
Among the major writers of the Hemingway and Fitzgerald generation, Edmund Wilson defied categorization. He wrote essays, stories and novels, cultural criticism, and contemporary chronicles, as well as journals and…
Edmund Wilson, the literary and social critic, helped shape American literary culture from the early 1920s through to the mid-1960s. This volume emerges from symposiums held in Wilson’s centenary year…
Richard Haver Costa
Recounts the literary critic’s final years at his home in upstate New York, and his views on literature, politics, and life in general.
David Castrono,Janet Groth
For half a century, Edmund Wilson played a major role in American letters. He also often acted as the playboy of its cultural and literary elite: Poet Edna St. Vincent…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
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The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of 972 documents discovered between 1946 and 1956 are of immeasurable religious and historical significance. They include the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical-era…
A thought-provoking collection of literary and cultural essays by one of the most influential critics of the 20th century. Wilson's insights into the works of such writers as Hemingway, Faulkner…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable…
The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of 972 documents discovered between 1946 and 1956, are of immeasurable religious and historical significance
Edmund Wilson’s classic work of literary criticism, The Wound and the Bow, makes the case that great personal hardships suffered by artists can often lead to works of creative genius…
The American Earthquake amply conveys the astonishing breadth of Edmund Wilson’s talent, provides an unparalleled vision of one of the most troubling periods in American history, and, perhaps inadvertently, offers…
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.
This book, made up of studies of Canadian writers and books, represents perhaps the first attempt on the part of an American critic to deal at the same time with…
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…
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…
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…
A Window on Russia is a collection of Wilson’s papers on Russian writers and the Russian language, writtern between 1943 and 1971.
The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects contains some of Edmund Wilson’s most significant and brilliant writings on topics and authors ranging from Pushkin, A. E. Housman, Flaubert, Henry…
The Duke of Palermo is a comedy about American academic life which is an intergral part of Edmund Wilson’s work and will be enjoyed by the admirers of literary chronicles…
The Shores of Light includes, in addition to essays and reviews, personal impressions, memoirs of important writers, sketches of Life in the twenties, imaginary dialogues, personal letters, and satires. A…
Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts from the leading literary critic of his generation, Edmund Wilson
The characters in Little Blue Light include an old-fashioned newspaperman who has…
A selection of … literary articles written during the nineteen forties.
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…
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…
Provides an introduction for those who would like to learn about the particle accelerators or ‘atom-smashers’ used in hospitals, industry and large research institutes where physicists probe deep into the…
Edmund Wilson’s Night Thoughts contains an astonishing arrangement of prose and poetry composed by the author from the years 1917-1919.
[C]haracterized by [Wilson’s] spontaneity and wit. … For Wilson followers…
Edmund Wilson’s The Fifties, edited by Leon Edel, is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties. It is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts…
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
From one of the leading literary critics of his generation comes the first of Edmund Wilson’s three novels, I thought of Daisy, published together with his short story Galahad.
Set…
Edmund Wilson,Geoff Wilson
The author’s account of the aspirations towards revolution from the dreamers of the romantic period via Marx and Engels to Lenin’s arrival at the Finland station in Petrograd in 1917…
Ronald Berman
A fresh and compelling study of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s intellectual friendship with Edmund Wilson, H. L. Mencken, and Gerald Murphy
Written between 1933 and 1942, Elizabeth WaughOs letters to Edmund Wilson record a courtship both intellectual and romantic. These letters offer fascinating insights into the process of artistic creation in…
Warner Berthoff
Edmund Wilson - American Writers 67 was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the…
Edmund Wilson (Head of the CERN Accelerator School, Geneva)
This book is a very simple introduction for those who would like to learn about the particle accelerators or ‘atom-smashers’ used in hospitals, industry and large research institutes where physicists…
Written in a fine, clear style that is not in the least dated, this is the riveting, comic, and ultimately very moving account of a man caught up in concurrent…
Max Nomad
This is a new release of the original 1961 edition.
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