New Releases by Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson''s The Fifties, edited by Leon Edel, is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties. It is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts of some of the most interesting characters of the decade, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, and Vladimir Nabokov. "A giant''s workroom we can wander through, marveling ..." - Richard Locke, The Wall Street Journal on The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period

Edmund Wilson turned forty-five in 1940, and this volume shows the extent to which he was reappraising his life in the decade to follow--saying goodbye to the drifting of the 1920s and the Marxism of the 1930s. Book jacket.

A quarter century of intimate and intellectual correspondence between Nabokov and critic Edmund Wilson, prior to their notorious feud.

An account of the discovery, origins and significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Edmund Wilson an American critic deals with the literatures of French and English Canada. Among the authors discussed are Morley Callaghan, Hugh MacLennan, John Buell, E. J. Pratt, Anne Hebert, Marie-Claire Blais, Roger Lemelin and Andre Laugevin.

Here Turgenev discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist''s experience into a work of art. The best possible introduction to the author a reader could ask for. --New York Herald-Tribune.

During a twelve-month period in 1930 and 1931, Edmund Wilson wrote a series of lengthy articles which he then collected in a book called American Jitters: A Year of the Slump. The resulting chronicle was hailed by the New York Times as "the best reporting that the period of depression has brought forth in the United States," and forms the heart of the present volume. In prose that is by turns dramatic and naturalistic, inflammatory and evocative, satirical and droll, Wilson painted an unforgettable portrait of a time when "the whole structure of American society seemed actually to be going to pieces." The American Earthquake bookends this chronicle with a collection of Wilson''s non-literary articles-including criticism, reportage, and some fiction-from the years of "The Follies," 1923-1928, and the dawn of the New Deal, 1932-1934. During this period, Wilson had grown from a little-known journalist to one of the most important American literary and social critics of the century. The American Earthquake amply conveys the astonishing breadth of Wilson''s talent, provides an unparalleled vision of one of the most troubling periods in American history, and, perhaps inadvertently, offers a self-portrait comparable to The Education of Henry Adams.

Selections from: Classics and commercials and The shores of light.

Galley 121/121-A (1 sheet) of Edmund Wilson''s The shore''s of light. Galley 121-A reprints a February, 1928 letter of F. Scott Fitzgerald''s to Edmund Wilson. This galley was sent to Scottie Fitzgerald Smith to whom Wilson added a signed marginal holograph note.