Galahad and I Thought of Daisy

Galahad and I Thought of Daisy PDF Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374600066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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From one of the leading literary critics of his generation comes the first of Edmund Wilson's three novels, I thought of Daisy, published together with his short story "Galahad." Set in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, Edmund Wilson’s I Thought of Daisy tells the coming of age story of a young man living a bohemian life, and of his heartfelt relationship with a chorus girl he meets at a party. Fictional sketches drawn from real-life literary figures are scattered throughout, including John Dos Passos and Wilson's lover, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Also included in this volume is Wilson's short story "Galahad," about the sexual awakening of a young boy at prep school. "What needs to be [said] is how good, if ungainly, Daisy is, how charmingly and intelligently she tells of the speakeasy days of a Greenwich Village as red and cozy as a valentine, of lamplit islands where love and ambition and drunkenness bloomed all at once. The fiction writer in Wilson was real, and his displacement is a real loss." - John Updike

Galahad and I Thought of Daisy

Galahad and I Thought of Daisy PDF Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374600066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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From one of the leading literary critics of his generation comes the first of Edmund Wilson's three novels, I thought of Daisy, published together with his short story "Galahad." Set in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, Edmund Wilson’s I Thought of Daisy tells the coming of age story of a young man living a bohemian life, and of his heartfelt relationship with a chorus girl he meets at a party. Fictional sketches drawn from real-life literary figures are scattered throughout, including John Dos Passos and Wilson's lover, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Also included in this volume is Wilson's short story "Galahad," about the sexual awakening of a young boy at prep school. "What needs to be [said] is how good, if ungainly, Daisy is, how charmingly and intelligently she tells of the speakeasy days of a Greenwich Village as red and cozy as a valentine, of lamplit islands where love and ambition and drunkenness bloomed all at once. The fiction writer in Wilson was real, and his displacement is a real loss." - John Updike

Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson PDF Author: Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
ISBN: 1461664519
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593

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This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) posits, quite successfully, that the subject lived a life as romantic and chaotic as his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald's. Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown and the tragic death of his second wife (he was married four times, among them, Mary McCarthy); had affairs with numerous beautiful women, including Edna St. Vincent Millay; and was friend to literary giants such as John Dos Passos, Vladimir Nabakov, and W.H. Auden.

Twentieth Century Fiction

Twentieth Century Fiction PDF Author: George Woodcock
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349170666
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Contemporary Literary Critics

Contemporary Literary Critics PDF Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134981475X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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A reference guide to the work of 115 modern British and American critics.

Twentieth Century American Literature

Twentieth Century American Literature PDF Author: Warren French
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134916416X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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The Duke of Palermo and Other Plays

The Duke of Palermo and Other Plays PDF Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 037460004X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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The Duke of Palermo is a comedy about American academic life which is an integral part of Edmund Wilson's work and will be enjoyed by the admirers of literary chronicles, as well as by those who know his fiction. Also included in this collection of plays is An Open Letter to Mike Nichols, which first appeared in the New York Review of Books.

Five Plays

Five Plays PDF Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374600287
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 541

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This collection includes The Crime in the Whispering Room, This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches, Beppo and Beth, The Little Blue Light, and Cyprian's Prayer.

Edmund Wilson; a Bibliography

Edmund Wilson; a Bibliography PDF Author: Richard David Ramsey
Publisher: New York : D. Lewis
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin

Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin PDF Author: Marion Meade
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
ISBN: 0385533012
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers--Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber--whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s. Capturing the jazz rhythms and desperate gaiety that defined the era, Meade gives us Parker, Fitzgerald, Millay, and Ferber, traces the intersections of their lives, and describes the men (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, Harold Ross, and Robert Benchley) who influenced them, loved them, and sometimes betrayed them. Here are the social and literary triumphs (Parker's Round Table witticisms appeared almost daily in the newspapers and Ferber and Millay won Pulitzer Prizes) and inevitably the penances each paid: crumbled love affairs, abortions, depression, lost beauty, nervous breakdowns, and finally, overdoses and even madness. These literary heroines did what they wanted, said what they thought, living wholly in the moment. They kicked open the door for twentieth-century women writers and set a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, and sexual freedom. Meade recreates the excitement, romance, and promise of the 1920s, a decade celebrated for cultural innovation--the birth of jazz, the beginning of modernism--and social and sexual liberation, bringing to light, as well, the anxiety and despair that lurked beneath the nonstop partying and outrageous behavior. A vibrant mixture of literary scholarship, social history, and scandal, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN is a rich evocation of a period that will forever intrigue and captivate us.

The Triple Thinkers

The Triple Thinkers PDF Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374600112
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects contains some of Edmund Wilson's most significant and brilliant writings on topics and authors ranging from Pushkin, A. E. Housman, Flaubert, Henry James, Marxism, poetry and more.