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The Forties

Name: The Forties
Author: Leon Edel
ISBN: 9780374157623

by Leon Edel

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Overview

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.

"This is the 3rd volume of Edmund Wilson's notebooks and diaries to be published. We can see the beginnings of the masterly work of Wilson's later years, the studies of the American literary and past on which his reputation will surely rest."--Washington

About the Author, Leon Edel

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded.