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It's great to see Wilson get this recognition for his brilliant insights and fine writing. For many of us the writers and characters of the Twenties and Thirties hold a special fascination. Wilson who knew most or all of this celebrated cast of characters during this period is a splendid witness to these decades. It's book for dipping and browsing.... »
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Liter If great writers are hard to find, then it's safe to say great literary critics are as rare as wild white tigers who can juggle plates. Edmund Wilson (189... »
Aubrey's Brief Lives (Nonpareil Books, No 77) ( Lives of the rich and famous recorded a time when there were no libel laws meant that even the dirt that wasnt fit to print could be disseminated, whether... »
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of th The period of the American Civil War was not one in which belles lettres flourished but it did produce a remarkable literature which mostly... »
Peasants and Other Stories (New York Review Boo There are innumerable, many incoherent collections of Chekhov's short fiction: such is the bane of an author being in the public domain. What makes this c... »
Memoirs of Hecate County (New York Review Books First I encountered Vladimir Nabokov's gentle, sad and funny novel PNIN, then DEAR BUNNY, DEAR VOLODYA: THE NABOKOV-WILSON LETTERS. Because I had found N... »
The Last Tycoon (Penguin Modern Classics) Fitzgerald is considered to be an important early 20th century American writer. I bought and read Fitzgerald's five major novels ("This Side of Paradise, ... »
The Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Southern Lit In the late 1800s, Kate Chopin set the literary world on fire with her now-classic novel "The Awakening." But that wasn't by any means the only writing Ch... »