Edmund Wilson
Ungar Pub. Co., June 1987. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Light soiling. Previous owner's name in ink half title page. [205 page]. More
Ungar Pub. Co., June 1987. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Light soiling. Previous owner's name in ink half title page. [205 page]. More
Shoemaker & Hoard, November 2005. Hardcover. Edmund Wilson, 20th century America's most direct and readable critic of literature and society, was a man of many loves. In his half century as a major force in American letters he had an outsize romantic career that reflected the complex depths of his..... More
Vintage, November 2013. Trade Paperback. Blending confessional criticism and cultural autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Evoking his deeply divided personality, his character flaws, his woes, his serious despair, he wants literature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human..... More
Little, Brown & Company, January 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition in edgeworn, foxed dustjacket. Not price clipped. Quarter cloth: aegean blue cloth spine with gold lettering on red title plate & carmine paper covered boards. Cerulean blue end pages. Heavy foxing textblock fore-edge. (572 pages). More