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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edmund Wilson |
| OCLC Number: | 253151 |
| Description: | viii, 694 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | A modest self-tribute -- John Peale Bishop -- Sheilah Graham and Scott Fitzgerald -- Mencken through the wrong end of the telescope -- The last phase of Bernard Shaw -- A miscellany of Max Beerbohm -- The pre-presidential T.R. -- The Holmes-Laski correspondence -- George Ade: the city uncle -- "The country I remember" -- Logan Pearsall Smith: Hannah Whitall Smith ; The ghost of an Anglophile ; The narrative of Robert Gathorne-Hardy -- Eric Partridge, the word king -- André Malraux: the museum without walls -- Mario Praz: The romantic agony -- The vogue of the Marquis de Sade -- The documents on the Marquis de Sade -- Swinburne's letters and novels -- Emergence of Angus Wilson -- Is it possible to pat Kingsley Amis? -- Cavalier and Yankee -- The James Branch Cabell case reopened -- James Branch Cabell: 1879-1958 -- Oo, those awful orcs! -- Bees, wasps and bombers -- Mycophile and mycophobe -- W.H. Auden in America -- "Miss Buttle" and "Mr. Eliot" -- Words of ill-omen -- Doctor Life and his guardian angel -- Legend and symbol in Doctor Zhivago -- Donmanship -- The albums of Edward Gorey -- Max Nomad and Waclaw Machajski -- George F. Kennan -- That summer in Paris -- Dawn Powell: Greenwich Village in the fifties -- An interview with Edmund Wilson -- Newton Arvin's Longfellow -- A postscript to Fowler: current clichés and solecisms -- More notes on current clichés -- Every man his own Eckermann -- My fifty years with dictionaries and grammars -- The genie of the Via Giulia. |
| Responsibility: | by Edmund Wilson. |
Abstract:
This book, with its companion volumes "The shores of light" and "Classics and commercials", provides a chronicle of the literary world in America and Europe from the twenties to the present.
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