Edmund Wilson was een Amerikaanse schrijver, literatuur- en sociaal criticus, die algemeen werd beschouwd als de voornaamste Amerikaanse man van letters van de 20e eeuw. Zijn uitgebreide oeuvre en inzichtelijke analyse van de Amerikaanse literatuur en samenleving vestigen hem als een centrale figuur in het literaire landschap.
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.
Seven Studies in Literature
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.
Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
