Edmund Wilson Bücher

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) hat nicht nur die moderne amerikanische Literatur von Dos Passos und Hemingway bis zu Nabokov gefördert und gleichzeitig zwischen den Traditionen der europäischen Geistesgeschichte und der amerikanischen Literatur vermittelt; er hat auch als linksliberaler Demokrat über ein halbes Jahrhundert hinweg die Politik der Vereinigten Staaten kritisch kommentiert. Diese Leidenschaft für die Literatur und sein Interesse an der Zeitgeschichte drücken sich in allen Briefen aus, mit denen er das Jahrhundert aufmerksam und unbestechlich begleitet hat.

Focusing on classic literature from the early 1900s and earlier, this collection aims to make scarce and costly works accessible through affordable, high-quality modern editions. Each book preserves the original text and artwork, allowing readers to experience these timeless pieces as they were originally intended.

The Sixties, the last of Edmund Wilson's posthumously published journals, is a personal history that is also brilliant social comedy and an anatomy of the times. Edited by Wilson's biographer, this volume poignantly - and defiantly - records the final years of one of our foremost critics and writers, taking its place alongside his major works, including To the Finland Station, Patriotic Gore, The Shores of Light, and Letters on Literature and Politics, as an enduring

Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most eloquently recorded era in American history.