The Undertaker's Garland
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Edmund Wilson fue un escritor y crítico literario y social estadounidense, considerado ampliamente como el hombre de letras estadounidense preeminente del siglo XX. Su extensa obra y perspicaz análisis de la literatura y la sociedad estadounidenses lo establecen como una figura fundamental en el panorama literario.






A Literary Chronicle of 1950–1965
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Exploring the history of symbolism, this literary criticism connects its significance to renowned authors like T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. It serves as a valuable resource for enthusiasts of Twentieth Century literature. The work is a rare find in its first edition, highlighting the scarcity of early 20th-century texts. The modern republishing aims to make classic literature accessible while preserving the original text and artwork, making it a recommended addition for any serious bookshelf.
The book features a collection of classic works from the early 1900s and earlier, which have become rare and costly. Hesperides Press aims to make these timeless pieces accessible by republishing them in high-quality, affordable modern editions that retain the original text and artwork, preserving their historical significance.
Hecate is the Greek goddess of sorcery, and Edmund Wilson's Hecate County is the bewitched center of the American Dream, a sleepy bedroom community where drinks flow endlessly and sexual fantasies fill the air. Memoirs of Hecate County , Wilson's favorite among his many books, is a set of interlinked stories combining the supernatural and the satirical, astute social observation and unusual personal detail. But the heart of the book, "The Princess with the Golden Hair," is a starkly realistic novella about New York City, its dance halls and speakeasies and slums. So sexually frank that for years Wilson's book was suppressed, this story is one of the great lost works of twentieth-century American an astringent, comic, ultimately devastating exploration of lust and love, how they do and do not overlap.
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
From the ideas of early 19th-century socialists to the thoughts of Marx, Engels, Lenin & Trotsky, Edmund Wilson traces the development of the political & intellectual movements that culminated in the Russian Revolution. TO THE FINLAND STATION is a work of history on a grand scale, at once sweeping, detailed, closely reasoned & passionately argued, that succeeds in painting an unforgettable picture--alive with conspirators, philosophers, utopians & nihilists--of the making of the modern world. 'The 1st thing that strikes us about To the Finland Station is the vastness of its scope...It is easily, equally at home in the philosopher's study, in the prisoner's cell, on the steppes, in the streets, melancholy in great country houses, choking in fetid industrial slums...It can remind us that our history is alive & open & rich with excitement & promise'--NY Times Book Review