Edmund Wilson

An historical study of the effects of the Russian Revolution on Europe introduces readers to the leading utopians, anarchists, and communists of the day, including Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Mikhail Bajunin, and others. Reprint.

A Study in the Writing and Acting of History

To the Finland Station

Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Alfred Kazin later wrote, "Wilson was an original, an extraordinary literary artist . . . He could turn any literary subject back into the personal drama it had been for the writer."

A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

Axel's Castle

F. Scott Fitzgerald

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Their eyes 'met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call'. A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood in its heyday, this was Fitzgerald's last work and he died without completing it. The novel's tragic tycoon hero is Stahr. Caught in the crossfire of his own effortless cynicism and his silent, secret vulnerability, Stahr inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity. If there is a moral or social necessity to film-making in this West Coast never-never land, Stahr does not always believe in it. If there is love he does not always see it. The sharpness of Fitzgerald's prose, the steely simplicity of his style, give a cutting edge to this study of Hollywood in the thirties, from which Fitzgerald draws a painfully bitter-sweet love affair and bids his own poignant farewell to the Great American Dream.

The Last Tycoon

The long-suppressed memoir of sexual fantasy in a small town explores the quiet suburban world where sexual desire is in the air, focusing on the humorous story of a man caught up in several love affairs at once. Original.

Memoirs of Hecate County

A young man leaves his bohemian lifestyle in Greenwich Village to pursue the chorus girl he loves.

I Thought of Daisy

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 (1885-1972). This welcome re-issue--one of several for this title--testifies to the value publishers put on it and to a reluctance among them ever to let it stay out of print for very long. The subjects Wilson treats--Dickens and Kipling, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway, Joyce and Sophocles, and perhaps most surprising, Jacques Casanova--reveal the range and dexterity of his interests, his historical grasp, his learning, and his intellectual curiosity. Wilson's essays did not give rise to a new body of literary theory nor to a new school of literary criticism. Rather, he animated or reanimated the reputations of the artists he treated and furthered the quest for the sources of their literary artistry and craftsmanship. F. Scott Fitzgerald called Wilson "the literary conscience of my generation." Today's readers of The Wound and the Bow may want to make the claim for their generation as well.

Seven Studies in Literature

The Wound and the Bow

Literary essays and reviews of the 1930s & 40s

The Shores of Light / Axel's Castle / Uncollected Reviews (Library of America #176)

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

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.

Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War

Patriotic Gore

A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties

The Shores of Light

Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls

'The American Earthquake' bookends 'American Jitters: A Year of the Slump', a previous Wilson effort. It features a collection of Wilson's non-literary articles-including criticism, reportage, and some fiction-from the years of 'The Follies, ' 1923-1928, and the dawn of the New Deal, 1932-1934.

A Chronicle Of The Roaring Twenties, The Great Depression, And The Dawn Of The New Deal

The American Earthquake

The Scrolls from the Dead Sea

Historical recollections of life in upstate New York. “What I have written . . . shows the gradual but steady expiration of the world of New York State as I knew it in my childhood and the modifications that its life has undergone. It is true that Lowville and Boonville have changed less—unless perhaps Charlottesville, Virginia—than any other part of this country that I knew when I was a child. But, as has been seen, it has reflected all the changes that, to a greater degree, have been taking place in the life of the country as a whole.” - Edmund Wilson

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