Edmund Wilson

• Feb-1952
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• Feb-1961
• / Fantasy
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• Feb-1963
• / General Fiction
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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 in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, Edmund Wilson’s I Th...

• Feb-1965
• / General Fiction
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This book is made up of studies of Canadian writers and books, mostly contemporary. It represents perhaps the first attempt on the part on an American critic to deal at the same time with the literatures of both French and English Canada.

• Feb-1966
• / Literary
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• Feb-1967
• / General Fiction
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• May-1975
• / Fantasy
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• 1976
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-1977
• / Literary
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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.

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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During a twelve-month period in 1930 and 1931, Edmund Wilson wrote a series of lengthy articles which he then collected in a book called "American Jitters: A Year of the Slump." The resulting chronicle was hailed by the "New York Times" as "the best ...

• May-1995
• / General Fiction
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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 t...

• Nov-1998
• / General Fiction
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Edmund Wilson, the preeminent American literary critic of the first half of the twentieth century, often fretted that he was not taken seriously as a creative writer. In the course of a career that produced Axed Castle, To the Finland Station, and Pa...

• Feb-2001
• / General Fiction
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Originally published in 1929, this is the first of three novels by Edmund Wilson, written whilst balancing his ambitions as a novelist against a career in literary criticism. The two tie together here in a depiction of a young man struggling to find ...

• Sep-2004
• / General Fiction
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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 Yea...