Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374600066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
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
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374600066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
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
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374600066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
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
I Thought of Daisy
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9780877457695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A young man leaves his bohemian lifestyle in Greenwich Village to pursue the chorus girl he loves.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9780877457695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A young man leaves his bohemian lifestyle in Greenwich Village to pursue the chorus girl he loves.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
Five Plays
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374600287
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
From the author of To the Finland Station and The Triple Thinkers comes a collection of five extraordinary plays. Collected together in one volume, these selected plays by Edmund Wilson includes such works as Cyprian's Prayer, The Crime in the Whispering Room, This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches, Beppo and Beth, and The Little Blue Light.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374600287
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
From the author of To the Finland Station and The Triple Thinkers comes a collection of five extraordinary plays. Collected together in one volume, these selected plays by Edmund Wilson includes such works as Cyprian's Prayer, The Crime in the Whispering Room, This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches, Beppo and Beth, and The Little Blue Light.
American Writers Since 1900
Author: James Vinson
Publisher: Saint James Press
ISBN: 9780912289137
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Publisher: Saint James Press
ISBN: 9780912289137
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, Books 1-3
Author: Carola Dunn
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1466893311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 837
Book Description
More than twenty years ago, Carola Dunn introduced to the world the charming, vivacious and perspicacious Daisy Dalrymple and the tumultuous decade of the 1920s, in an England barely starting to recover from World War I and now undergoing rapid social changes. Death at Wentwater Court: In early 1923, the young Honourable Daisy Dalrymple has made a decision that shocks her social class—she's decided to make her own living as a writer. Landing an assignment to write a series of articles on country manor houses, Daisy travels to Wentwater Court to research her first piece. There she finds a household in turmoil, filled with holiday guests and recriminations. But that's nothing compared to the uproar when one of those guests turns up dead in an "accident." The Winter Garden Mystery: Continuing her assignment on country manor houses, Daisy travels to gloomy Occles Hall, which is under the charge of the autocratic Lady Valeria. While touring the gardens, Daisy discovers the body of a parlor maid that had gone missing two months prior. Distressed by the ineptitude of the local police force, Daisy plunges in to help find the killer before he strikes again. Requiem for a Mezzo: Back in London, Daisy attends a performance of Verdi's "Requiem." During the show, the lead soprano keels over dead of an apparent poisoning. Joining Daisy in figuring out what happened is Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher. The two embark on finding who wanted the singer dead, and why.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1466893311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 837
Book Description
More than twenty years ago, Carola Dunn introduced to the world the charming, vivacious and perspicacious Daisy Dalrymple and the tumultuous decade of the 1920s, in an England barely starting to recover from World War I and now undergoing rapid social changes. Death at Wentwater Court: In early 1923, the young Honourable Daisy Dalrymple has made a decision that shocks her social class—she's decided to make her own living as a writer. Landing an assignment to write a series of articles on country manor houses, Daisy travels to Wentwater Court to research her first piece. There she finds a household in turmoil, filled with holiday guests and recriminations. But that's nothing compared to the uproar when one of those guests turns up dead in an "accident." The Winter Garden Mystery: Continuing her assignment on country manor houses, Daisy travels to gloomy Occles Hall, which is under the charge of the autocratic Lady Valeria. While touring the gardens, Daisy discovers the body of a parlor maid that had gone missing two months prior. Distressed by the ineptitude of the local police force, Daisy plunges in to help find the killer before he strikes again. Requiem for a Mezzo: Back in London, Daisy attends a performance of Verdi's "Requiem." During the show, the lead soprano keels over dead of an apparent poisoning. Joining Daisy in figuring out what happened is Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher. The two embark on finding who wanted the singer dead, and why.
Contemporary Literary Critics
Author: Elmer Borklund
Publisher: London : St. James Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A reference guide to the work of 115 modern British and American critics.
Publisher: London : St. James Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A reference guide to the work of 115 modern British and American critics.
Contemporary Literary Critics
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134981475X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
A reference guide to the work of 115 modern British and American critics.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134981475X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
A reference guide to the work of 115 modern British and American critics.
The Forties
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374600058
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
From one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century, this installment of Edmund Wilson’s private notebooks covers the years of the 1940s, providing a rich lens into the writer’s life and the world at large. Wilson turned forty-five in 1940, and this volume The Forties: From Notebooks & Diaries of the Period 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. Published posthumously and edited by Leon Edel, The Forties includes observations on his increasingly complicated family matters and covers appreciatively writers like Andre Malraux, W. H. Auden, and Max Beerbohm, as well as entries from his research and travels. "We can see the beginnings of the masterly work of Wilson's later years, the studies of the American literary and mythic past on which his reputation will surely rest." Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post on The Forties
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374600058
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
From one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century, this installment of Edmund Wilson’s private notebooks covers the years of the 1940s, providing a rich lens into the writer’s life and the world at large. Wilson turned forty-five in 1940, and this volume The Forties: From Notebooks & Diaries of the Period 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. Published posthumously and edited by Leon Edel, The Forties includes observations on his increasingly complicated family matters and covers appreciatively writers like Andre Malraux, W. H. Auden, and Max Beerbohm, as well as entries from his research and travels. "We can see the beginnings of the masterly work of Wilson's later years, the studies of the American literary and mythic past on which his reputation will surely rest." Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post on The Forties