“edmund wilson”

This book, made up of studies of Canadian writers and books, represents perhaps the first attempt on the part of an American critic to deal at the same time with the literatures of both French and English Canada. Among the authors discussed are Morley Callaghan, Hugh MacLennan, John Buell, E.J. Prat... More

This book was first published in 1947 with the subtitle "Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece, and England," and had been out of print for many years. It provides an informative and vivid account if these countries of postwar Europe.... More

"A Window on Russia "is a collection of Wilson's papers on Russian writers and the Russian language, writtern between 1943 and 1971.... More

"The Duke of Palermo" is a comedy about American academic life which is an intergral part of Edmund Wilson's work and will be enjoyed by the admirers of literary chronicles, as well as by those who know his fiction.... More

This collection includes "The Crime in the Whispering Room, This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches, Beppo and Beth, The Little Blue Light, "and" Cyprian's Prayer."... More