Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 146689962X
Controversial upon publication in 1946, Memoirs of Hecate County remained banned for more than a decade before being reissued. A favorite among his own books, Edmund Wilson's erotic and devestating portrait of the upper middle class still holds up today as a corrosive indictment of the adultery and intellectual posturing that lie at the heart of suburban America.
Author : Alex Beam
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2016
Category : BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 1101870222
"In 1940 Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning reviews for The New Republic, engineering a Guggenheim. Their intimate friendship blossomed over a shared interest in all things Russian, ruffled a bit by political disagreements. But then came Lolita, and suddenly Nabokov was the big (and very rich) dog. Finally the feud erupted in full when Nabokov published his hugely footnoted and virtually unreadable literal translation of Pushkin's famously untranslatable verse novel Eugene Onegin. Wilson attacked his friend's translation with hammer and tong in the New York Review of Books. Nabokov counterattacked in the same publication. Back and forth the increasingly aggressive letters volleyed until their friendship was reduced to ashes by the narcissism of small differences"--
Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781590170335
Presents a critical and historical study of European writers and theorists of Socialism in the one hundred fifty years leading to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and discusses European socialism, anarchism, and theories of revolution.
Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 32,25 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374600104
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 critic of the twentieth century, reflects back on life in his sixth decade with this insightful intellectual autobiography that covers topics ranging from Religion, War, the USA, Europe, Russia, Jews, Education, Science, Sex, and much more, all examined with his characteristic wit and intelligence.
Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393312560
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 writings of some thirty representative Americans.
Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0374600260
Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties showcases Edmund Wilson's critical writings spanning decades and continents. Many of these essays first appeared in the New Yorker. Here is Wilson on Jane Austen, Thackeray, Edith Wharton, Tolstoy, Swift (the classics) as well as brilliant observations on Poe, H.P Lovecraft, detective stories, and other commercial literature. This wide-ranging study from one of the most influential man of letters demonstrates Wilson's supreme skills as both literary and cultural critic.
Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2009-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811219712
A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays—as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos—tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."
Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780877457695
A young man leaves his bohemian lifestyle in Greenwich Village to pursue the chorus girl he loves.
Author : Elizabeth Hardwick
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590174380
In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick’s finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years.
Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 1968
Category : American literature
ISBN :
