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Text extracted from opening pages of book: CLASSICS AND COMMERCIALS
BOOKS BY EDMUND WILSON I THOUGHT OF DAISY AXEL'S CASTLE THE TRIFLE
THINKERS TO THE FINLAND STATION THE WOUND AND THE BOW THE SHOCK OF
RECOGNITION MEMOIRS OF HECATE COUNTY EUROPE WITHOUT BAEDEKER
CLASSICS AND COMMERCIALS THE SHORES OF LIGHT FIVE PLAYS THE SCROLLS
FROM THE DEAD SEA RED, BLACK, BLOND AND OLIVE A PIECE OF MY MIND
THE AMERICAN EARTHQUAKE APOLOGIES TO THE IROQUOIS WILSON'S NIGHT
THOUGHTS PATRIOTIC GORE THE COLD WAR AND THE INCOME TAX O CANADA
THE BIT BETWEEN MY TEETH Classics and Commercials A LITERARY
CHRONICLE OF THE FORTIES BY EDMUND WILSON CONTENTS Archibald
MacLeish and the Word 3 Van Wyck Brooks's Second Phase 10 The Boys
in the Back Room 19 1. JAMES M. CAIN 2. JOHN O'HARA 3. WILLIAM
SAROYAN 4. HANS OTTO STORM 5. JOHN STEINBECK 6. FACING THE PACIFIC
POSTSCRIPT Max Eastman in 1941 57 T. K. Whipple 70 The Antrobuses
and the Earwickers 81 Alexander Woollcott of the Phalanx 87 The
Poetry of Angelica Balabanoff 94 Mr. Joseph E. Davies as a Stylist
98 Thoughts on Being Bibliographed 105 Through the Embassy Window:
Harold Nicolson 121 Kay Boyle and the Saturday Evening Post 128 The
Life and Times of John Barrymore 133 Never Apologize, Never
Explain: The Art of Evelyn Waugh 140 John Mulholland and the Art of
Illusion 147 What Became of Louis Bromfield 153 Vi CONTENTS A Toast
and a Tear for Dorothy Parker 168 A Treatise on Tales of Honor 172
A Guide to Finnegans Wake 182 A Novel by Salvador Dali 190 A Long
Talk about Jane Austen 196 You Can't Do This to Me! Shrilled Celia
204 Aldous Huxley in the World Beyond Time 209 Vladimir Nabokov on
Gogol 215 Katherine Anne Porter 219 A Picture to Hang in the
Library: Brooks's Age of Irving 224 Why Do People Read Detective
Stories? 231 Bernard Shaw on the Training of a Statesman 238
Reexamining Dr. Johnson 244 Leonid Leonov: The Sophistication of a
Formula 250 Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? 257 Mr, Holmes,
They Were The Footprints of a Gigantic Hound! 266 Glenway Wescott's
War Work 275 A Cry from the Unquiet Grave 280 Tales of the
Marvellous and the Ridiculous 286 Thackeray's Letters: A Victorian
Document 291 Splendors and Miseries of Evelyn Waugh 298 George
Saintsbuiy's Centenary 306 Ambushing a Best-Seller 311 The
Apotheosis of Somerset Maugham 319 William Saroyan and His Darling
Old Providence 327 Oscar Wilde: One Must Always Seek What Is Most
Tragic 331 George Grosz in the United States 343 An Old Friend of
the Family: Thackeray 348 Gilbert Without Sullivan 359 George
Saintsbury: Gourmet and Glutton 366 Books of Etiquette and Emily
Post 372 CONTENTS Vll A Dissenting Opinion on Kafka 383 Jean-Paul
Sartre: The Novelist and the Existentialist 393 The Musical Glasses
of Peacock 404 Edith Wharton: A Memoir by an English Friend 412 The
Sanctity of Baudelaire 419 Van Wyck Brooks on the Civil War Period
42,3 An Analysis of Max Beerbohm 431 The Original of Tolstoy's
Natasha 442, The Most Unhappy Man on Earth 453 William Faulkner's
Reply to the Civil-Rights Program 460 In Memory of Octave Mirbeau
471 A Revival of Ronald Firbank 486 Paul Rosenfeld: Three Phases
503 Index 521 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THIS BOOK contains a selection of my
literary articles written during the nineteen-forties. All of them
have been revised and some of them considerably rewritten. A few
have been brought up to date with postscripts. With the exception
of the memoir of Rosenfeld andsome of the notes on Connolly and
Waugh, they are presented in chronological order. The dates in most
cases are those of their first appearance in print; but to T. K.
Whvpyle, Thoughts on Being Blbliographed and Paul Rosenfeld: Three
Phases I have assigned the dates when they were written. From the
article on Harold Nicolson through the article on Ronald Firbank,
all the pieces originally ap peared in the New Yorker. Archibald
MacLeish and the Word, Van Wyck Brooks' s Second Phase and Max East
man in 1941 were first printed in the New Republic; The Antrobuses
and the E
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2007 |
First published: |
March 2007 |
Authors: |
Edmund Wilson
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
544 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4067-5911-2 |
Categories: |
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Humanities >
History >
General
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History >
General
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LSN: |
1-4067-5911-2 |
Barcode: |
9781406759112 |
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