Edmund Wilson Libri

The Sixties, the last of Edmund Wilson's posthumously published journals, is a personal history that is also brilliant social comedy and an anatomy of the times. Edited by Wilson's biographer, this volume poignantly - and defiantly - records the final years of one of our foremost critics and writers, taking its place alongside his major works, including To the Finland Station, Patriotic Gore, The Shores of Light, and Letters on Literature and Politics, as an enduring

Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most eloquently recorded era in American history.

Focusing on classic literature from the early 1900s and earlier, this collection aims to make scarce and costly works accessible through affordable, high-quality modern editions. Each book preserves the original text and artwork, allowing readers to experience these timeless pieces as they were originally intended.

s/t: Landscapes, Characters & Conversations from the Earlier Years of My LifePROFILE of Edmund Wilson in the form of autobiographical reminiscences. He began keeping a journal in 1914. The first part deals predominantly with his childhood. He lived in Red Bank, N.J. and spent summers in Talcottville in upstate N.Y. and went to Hill School and later Princeton. The second part deals with his undergraduate days at Princeton - 1912 to 1916, and his life in New York 1916 to 1917 when he shared an apartment and worked on the N.Y. Evening Sun. The third part deals with his Army service Aug. 1917 to July 1919. He served in a hospital unit in Vittel, France and in the Intelligence Service at U.S. General Hq, in Chaumont. Two short stories, by Mr. Wilson, are included, both based on actual events. One, "The Death of a Soldier," tells about the death of a young soldier from pneumonia just before going to the front. The second, "Lieutenant Franklin" tells about a young officer in the Army of Occupation in Germany after the war, who fraternized with the Germans.Source: The New Yorker

Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972 contains a selection of the literary critic and author Edmund Wilson's personal correspondence. As editor Leon Edel states in his introduction to these papers: "More than a sampling, the present volume provides sufficient material to show the energy and vitality of Wilson's professional relations with friends and acquaintances; it shows even more the continuity of his imaginative life from his youth to the end."

Hugely entertaining, informative bumper bundle of articles on contemporary (1920s onwards) literature; puffs and polemics, always lively and well-argued, in quick succession.

The distinguished American writer-critic's personal views of and reflections on the places, events, and people of the roaring decade, gathered and edited from his notebooks and journals.

Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972, but he was also far more than a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, a probing observer of himself and of the society around him.

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) hat nicht nur die moderne amerikanische Literatur von Dos Passos und Hemingway bis zu Nabokov gefördert und gleichzeitig zwischen den Traditionen der europäischen Geistesgeschichte und der amerikanischen Literatur vermittelt; er hat auch als linksliberaler Demokrat über ein halbes Jahrhundert hinweg die Politik der Vereinigten Staaten kritisch kommentiert. Diese Leidenschaft für die Literatur und sein Interesse an der Zeitgeschichte drücken sich in allen Briefen aus, mit denen er das Jahrhundert aufmerksam und unbestechlich begleitet hat.