The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature

Edmund Wilson‏

نوفمبر 2019 · Macmillan + ORM

معلومات عن هذا الكتاب الإلكتروني

The Wound and the Bow contains seven essays by "The greatest literary critic of the twentieth century.” -New York magazine.

Combining biographical and critical sketches, Edmund Wilson writes brilliantly on a wide-range of authors including Dickens, Kipling, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, Joyce, Jacques Casanova, and Sophocles.

"In the best tradition of literary criticism... combines exact information with shrewd and searching penetration into the personal life of the artist."-The New York Times

نبذة عن المؤلف

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. His more than twenty books include Axel’s Castle, Patriotic Gore, To the Finland Station, and Memoirs of Hecate County.