Memoirs of hecate county, by edmund wilson
Author: Edward J. N. Wilson
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Published: 1951
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Memoirs of Hecate County
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2019-11-12
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 146689962X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKControversial 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 today as a corrosive indictment of the adultery and intellectual posturing that lie at the heart of suburban America.
The Feud
Author: Alex Beam
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1101870222
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In 1940 Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning reviews for The New Republic, engineering a Guggenheim. Their intimate friendship blossomed over a shared interest in all things Russian, ruffled a bit by political disagreements. But then came Lolita, and suddenly Nabokov was the big (and very rich) dog. Finally the feud erupted in full when Nabokov published his hugely footnoted and virtually unreadable literal translation of Pushkin's famously untranslatable verse novel Eugene Onegin. Wilson attacked his friend's translation with hammer and tong in the New York Review of Books. Nabokov counterattacked in the same publication. Back and forth the increasingly aggressive letters volleyed until their friendship was reduced to ashes by the narcissism of small differences"--
Classics and Commercials
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2019-11-12
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 0374600260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Piece of My Mind
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2019-11-05
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0374600104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of To the Finland Station comes a deeply personal and incisive memoir, A Piece of My Mind. Edmund Wilson, often considered to be the greatest American literary critic of the twentieth century, reflects back on life in his sixth decade with this insightful intellectual autobiography that covers topics ranging from Religion, War, the USA, Europe, Russia, Jews, Education, Science, Sex, and much more, all examined with his characteristic wit and intelligence.
Patriotic Gore
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 852
ISBN-13: 9780393312560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRegarded 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.
To the Finland Station
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9781590170335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a critical and historical study of European writers and theorists of Socialism in the one hundred fifty years leading to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and discusses European socialism, anarchism, and theories of revolution.
Cold War and The Income Tax
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2019-11-19
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 0374600023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe truth is that the people of the United States are at the present time dominated and driven by two kinds of officially propagated fear: fear of the Soviet Union and fear of the income tax. These two terrors have been adjusted so as to complement one another and thus to keep the citizen of our free society under the strain of a double pressure from which he finds himself unable to escape -- like the man in the old Western story, who, chased into a narrow ravine by a buffalo, is confronted with a grizzly bear. If we fail to accept the tax, the Russian buffalo will butt and trample us, and if we try to defy the tax, the federal bear will crush us. The 60,000 officials who are appointed to check on us taxpayers are checked on, themselves, it seems, by another group of agents set to watch them. And supplementing these officials -- since private citizens are paid by the Internal Revenue Service to report on other people's delinquencies, and their names of course are never revealed -- there is a whole host of amateur investigators. . . Does this kind of spying and delation differ much in its incitement to treachery from that which is encouraged in the Soviet Union?
The Crack-Up
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2009-02-27
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0811219712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays—as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos—tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."
I Thought of Daisy
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780877457695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young man leaves his bohemian lifestyle in Greenwich Village to pursue the chorus girl he loves.
