The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period Contributor(s): Wilson, Edmund (Author), Edel, Leon (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0374518351 ISBN-13: 9780374518356 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $27.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1984 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 82021028 |
Physical Information: 0.92" H x 5" W x 8" (1.00 lbs) 397 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century, this installment of Edmund Wilson's private notebooks covers the years of the 1940s, providing a rich lens into the writer's life and the world at large. Wilson turned forty-five in 1940, and this volume The Forties: From Notebooks & Diaries of the Period shows the extent to which he was reappraising his life in the decade to follow - saying goodbye to the drifting of the 1920s and the Marxism of the 1930s. Published posthumously and edited by Leon Edel, The Forties includes observations on his increasingly complicated family matters and covers appreciatively writers like Andre Malraux, W. H. Auden, and Max Beerbohm, as well as entries from his research and travels. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wilson, Edmund: - Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. |