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.
This literary criticism offers a deep exploration of the artist's personal life, intertwining factual information with insightful analysis. It delves into the complexities of the artist's experiences and motivations, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of their work and impact. The approach balances rigorous research with a keen psychological perspective, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in the intersection of art and biography.
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
This collection focuses on republishing classic works from the early 1900s and earlier, which have become rare and costly. The editions are affordable and maintain high quality, featuring the original text and artwork, making them accessible for contemporary readers who wish to explore historical literature.
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.
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.
Published in 1931, "Axel's Castle" is Edmund Wilson's first literary criticism book, examining the French Symbolist movement and its impact on six key 20th-century writers: Yeats, Valéry, Eliot, Proust, Joyce, and Stein. Alfred Kazin praised Wilson as an original literary artist, highlighting his ability to connect literature with personal drama.
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.
Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
