Axel's Castle - A Study in Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (Paperback)

from jonfaith

Somewhere in the previous Wilson I recently read, the critic states that one of his favorite times in life is when he's able to describe a book to someone unfamiliar with such. That ripple of joy is on display here. Often. I truly wish I had read this book 30 years ago. It was probably the number...

from jonfaith

Somewhere in the previous Wilson I recently read, the critic states that one of his favorite times in life is when he's able to describe a book to someone unfamiliar with such. That ripple of joy is on display here. Often. I truly wish I had read this book 30 years ago. It was probably the number...

from RussellBittner

I am, virtually without qualification, a huge fan of Edmund Wilson's essays, if less so of his fiction. While perhaps not at the level of a Macaulay, a Montaigne, a Johnson, a Benjamin, an Emerson, or even an H. L. Mencken, Wilson has written both eloquently and persuasively on a variety of topic...

from tzelman

Sharp analytical discussion of Symbolists and imaginative prose 1870-1930--opinionated and perceptive

from tzelman

Sharp analytical discussion of Symbolists and imaginative prose 1870-1930--opinionated and perceptive