1920s 1920s 30s 30s essay essay literary literary review review

1920s 1920s 30s 30s essay essay literary literary review review

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Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s

Scott Fitzgerald and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Little escapes his notice: burlesque shows and Henry James, Soviet theater and the magic of Harry Houdini, the first novels of Malraux and the rediscovery of Edgar Allan Poe. For several generations this book has stood as an indispensable companion to some of the crucial turning points in modern literature. For Wilson, there are no minor subjects; every literary occasion sparks writing that is witty, energetic, and alive to the undercurrents of his time.

In addition this volume includes a number of uncollected reviews from the same period, including discussions of H. Mencken, Edith Wharton, and Bernard Shaw. The Library of America series includes more than volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1, pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Literary Essays and Reviews of the s & 40s, ed. Lewis M. Dabney. New York​: Literary Classics of the United States, –8. “Leonid Leonov: The. Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the s and 30s. The Shores of Light | Axel's Castle | uncollected reviews More. Edited by Lewis M. Dabney.

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Some historians, looking back over the first half of the 20th century, were inclined to think that it was particularly noteworthy for its literary criticism.

The invaluable Library of America continues its great work with the publication of a new volume of collected essays by Wilson. Wilson's work stands as a lasting example of the contributions that a literary education and sensibility can bring to the understanding of nations and their affairs. In Patriotic Gore, he analyzed the consequences of the Civil War in American life, and therefore in American politics, with rare intelligence; To the Finland Station offered Americans an extraordinary introduction to the mental world of communism and therefore a vital preparation for Americans coming to grips with the Cold War; Axel's Castle reprinted in this book introduced a generation of Americans to literary modernism and to the concepts and culture that helped shape the twentieth century, and it traced the flow of ideas and influence back and forth across the Atlantic.

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Edmund Wilson , Edward J. Wilson , Lewis M. With this inaugural volume of what will be a series devoted to Edmund Wilson's work, The Library of America pays tribute to the writer who first conceived the idea of a publishing series dedicated to "bringing out in a complete and compact form the principal American classics. The Shores of Light is Wilson's magisterial assemblage of early reviews, sketches, stories, memoirs, and other writings into a teeming panorama of America's literary life in a period of exuberant expansion and in the years of political and economic strife that followed. Scott Fitzgerald and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s (LOA #176)

Edmund Wilson : Literary Essays and Reviews of the s and 30s. For several generations this book has stood as an indispensable companion to some of the crucial turning points in modern literature. For Wilson, there are no minor subjects; every literary occasion sparks writing that is witty, energetic, and alive to the undercurrents of his time. In addition this volume includes a number of uncollected reviews from the same period, including discussions of H. Mencken, Edith Wharton, and Bernard Shaw. Lewis M. He is a professor of English at the University of Wyoming. This Library of America series edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

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Scott Fitzgerald and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Little escapes his notice: burlesque shows and Henry James, Soviet theater and the magic of Harry Houdini, the first novels of Malraux and the rediscovery of Edgar Allan Poe. For several generations this book has stood as an indispensable companion to some of the crucial turning points in modern literature.

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