{"product_id":"edmund-wilson-literary-essays-and-reviews-of-the-1920s-30s-1","title":"Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s \u0026 40s","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eSecond-Hand (Hardcover)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eExcellent condition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972, but he was also far more than that: a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, a probing observer of himself and of the society aro\u003c\/strong\u003eund him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s and 40s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e shows Wilson at the midpoint of his extraordinary career as critic and scholar, and includes in complete form three of his most significant books. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Triple Thinkers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1938, revised 1948) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Wound and the Bow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1941) give us Wilson at the height of his powers, in a series of extended literary studies marked by his unique combination of criticism, biographical narrative, and psychological analysis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Here are his dazzling portraits of Pushkin and Flaubert, Dickens and Henry James, Kipling and Casanova, equally sensitive to historical context and his subjects’ inner lives; his scintillating reader’s guide to the mysteries of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and his celebrated exploration of the nature of creativity through the figure of Sophocles’ wounded hero Philoctetes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClassics and Commercials\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1950) is Wilson’s gathering of the best of his reviews from the 1940s, a collection that exemplifies the range and omnivorousness of his interests. In the exact and fluent prose that makes him an unfailing delight to read, Wilson takes on everything from Gogol and Tolstoy to contemporaries like James M. Cain, Katherine Anne Porter, Dorothy Parker, and William Faulkner.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Whether registering his qualms about detective novels, parsing the etiquette manuals of Emily Post, or paying tribute to the comic genius of Evelyn Waugh, Wilson turns any critical occasion into the highest kind of pleasure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe volume is completed with a selection of uncollected reviews from this period, including Wilson’s observations on the work of William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, and Anaïs Nin.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edmund Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43064511529129,"sku":"","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/edmund-wilson_1.webp?v=1684217762","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/edmund-wilson-literary-essays-and-reviews-of-the-1920s-30s-1","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}