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A survey of such writers as W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, and Marcel Proust who belonged to the modern symbolic movement

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9780684106724, titled "Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930" | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1931, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A survey of such writers as W.

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9780020128717, titled "Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930" | Reissue edition (Collier Books, August 1, 1991), cover price $12.95

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Product Description: 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.

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9780374526658, titled "Five Plays: Cyprian's Prayer/the Crime in the Whistler Room/This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches/Beppo and Beth/the Little" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1954, cover price $32.00 | also contains Unternehmenskommunikation: Wirkung Und Wertschopfung | About this edition: 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.

An account of the discovery of the scrolls in 1947 and the subsequent discovery of additional manuscripts, all of which serve in the study of ancient Judaism and Christianity

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9780195006650 | Revised edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 15, 1969), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: An account of the discovery of the scrolls in 1947 and the subsequent discovery of additional manuscripts, all of which serve in the study of ancient Judaism and Christianity

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9780374526719 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1956, cover price $20.00

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The long-suppressed memoir of sexual fantasy in a small town explores the quiet suburban world where sexual desire is in the air, focusing on the humorous story of a man caught up in several love affairs at once. Original.

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9781852900205 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, August 1, 1990), cover price $22.95
9780374986568 | Octagon Books, June 1, 1959, cover price $34.00

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9781590170939 | New York Review of Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The long-suppressed memoir of sexual fantasy in a small town explores the quiet suburban world where sexual desire is in the air, focusing on the humorous story of a man caught up in several love affairs at once.
9780374524326, titled "The Memoirs of Hecate County" | Reprint edition (Noonday Pr, April 30, 1995), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A favorite among his own books, Edmund Wilson's erotic and devestating portrait of the upper middle class still holds up today as a corrosive indictment of the adultery and intellectual posturing that lie at the heart of suburban America.
9780879233150 | David R Godine Pub, July 1, 1980, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A writer recalls the stories of friends, acquaintances, and lovers he knew during his youth, and the county, whose landscape still haunts him

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Product Description: This book is made up of studies of Canadian writers and books, mostly contemporary. It represents perhaps the first attempt on the part on an American critic to deal at the same time with the literatures of both French and English Canada.

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9780374505165, titled "O Canada: An American's Notes on Canadian Culture" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1963, cover price $20.00 | also contains La Tragique Histoire Du Docteur Faust | About this edition: This book is made up of studies of Canadian writers and books, mostly contemporary.

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9780374505882 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 31, 1963, cover price $26.00

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Product Description: The truth is that the people of the United States are at the present time dominated and driven by two kinds of officially propagated fear: fear of the Soviet Union and fear of the income tax. These two terrors have been adjusted so as to complement one another and thus to keep the citizen of our free society under the strain of a double pressure from which he finds himself unable to escape -- like the man in the old Western story, who, chased into a narrow ravine by a buffalo, is confronted with a grizzly bear...read more

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9780374526689 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1963, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The truth is that the people of the United States are at the present time dominated and driven by two kinds of officially propagated fear: fear of the Soviet Union and fear of the income tax.

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Product Description: Ex-libris shelf-cocked copy. DJ protected with a plastic cover. Overal=

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9780374506247 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1965, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Ex-libris shelf-cocked copy.

Reconstructs the era of the American Civil War by drawing from the writings of those who lived through it

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9780195007305 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1966, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Reconstructs the era of the American Civil War by drawing from the writings of those who lived through it

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Product Description: This book was first published in 1947 with the subtitle "Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece, and England," and had been out of print for many years. It provides an informative and vivid account if these countries of postwar Europe.

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9780374505578 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1966, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: This book was first published in 1947 with the subtitle "Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece, and England," and had been out of print for many years.

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9780836910025 | Facsimile edition (Books for Libraries, June 1, 1968), cover price $41.47

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Product Description: The Duke of Palermo is a comedy about American academic life which is an intergral 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.

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9780374526641 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1969, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The Duke of Palermo is a comedy about American academic life which is an intergral 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.

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Product Description: A Window on Russia is a collection of Wilson's papers on Russian writers and the Russian language, writtern between 1943 and 1971. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780374511418 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1972, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A Window on Russia is a collection of Wilson's papers on Russian writers and the Russian language, writtern between 1943 and 1971.

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Carefully explores the birth and evolution of communism in Europe from the theories of Vico, Michelet, and Robert Owen to the twentieth-century activism of Trotsky and Lenin (view table of contents)

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9781568495743 | Reprint edition (Buccaneer Books, December 1, 2000), cover price $15.95

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9780374510459 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1973, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Carefully explores the birth and evolution of communism in Europe from the theories of Vico, Michelet, and Robert Owen to the twentieth-century activism of Trotsky and Lenin

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Product Description: Edmund Wilson has written a new introduction to his classic study of the modern conception of history in the West, and has restored the appendices which appeared in the first edition of 1940 but were dropped from subsequent editions...read more

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9780374526696 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1973, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Edmund Wilson has written a new introduction to his classic study of the modern conception of history in the West, and has restored the appendices which appeared in the first edition of 1940 but were dropped from subsequent editions.

The literary critic discusses verse technique, the historical interpretation of literature, and writers including Pushkin, Housman, Flaubert, James and Shaw

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9780374986513 | Octagon Books, September 1, 1976, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The literary critic discusses verse technique, the historical interpretation of literature, and writers including Pushkin, Housman, Flaubert, James and Shaw

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9780374513221 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1976, cover price $22.00

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Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantly portrays the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans. Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most eloquently recorded era in American history. (view table of contents)

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9780393312560 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1994), cover price $37.95
9780930350611 | Reprint edition (Northeastern Univ Pr, July 1, 1984), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantly portrays the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans.
9780374514037 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1977, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantly portrays the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans.

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Product Description: The Wound and the Bow collects seven wonderful essays on the delicate theme of the relation between art and suffering by the legendary literary and social critic, Edmund Wilson (1885–1972). This welcome re-issue—one of several for this title—testifies to the value publishers put on it and to a reluctance among them ever to let it stay out of print for very long...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780821411896, titled "The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature" | Reprint edition (Ohio Univ Pr, May 1, 1997), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The Wound and the Bow collects seven wonderful essays on the delicate theme of the relation between art and suffering by the legendary literary and social critic, Edmund Wilson (1885–1972).
9780374514808 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1978, cover price $4.95

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9780374515058 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1979, cover price $8.70

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780306806964 | Perseus Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: 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 .
9780374515072 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1979, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: 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.

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Wilson's journals of the 1930s record his passage from youthful concerns during the Jazz Age to his more substantial middle years as well as the nuances of the country's social, political, and cultural trends during the 1930s.

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9780374275723 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 1980, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Wilson's journals of the 1930s record his passage from youthful concerns during the Jazz Age to his more substantial middle years as well as the nuances of the country's social, political, and cultural trends during the 1930s.

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