The American Earthquake; A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties

Wilson, Edmund

Edité par Doubleday Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, NY, 1958

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576 pages. 20 cm. Occasional footnotes. DJ worn, torn, soiled, and chipped. Front hinge weak and restrengthened with glue. From Wikipedia: "Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary and social critic, and man of letters. Wilson was the managing editor of Vanity Fair in 1920 and 1921, and later served as associate editor of The New Republic and as a book reviewer for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He wrote plays, poems, and novels, but his greatest influence was literary criticism. In his book, To the Finland Station (1940), Wilson studied the course of European socialism, from the 1824 discovery by Jules Michelet of the ideas of Vico culminating in the 1917 arrival of Vladimir Lenin at the Finland Station of Saint Petersburg to lead the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution. Wilson was interested in modern culture as a whole, and many of his writings go beyond the realm of pure literary criticism." 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. In prose that is by turns dramatic and naturalistic, inflammatory and evocative, satirical and droll, Wilson painted an unforgettable portrait of a time when "the whole structure of American society seemed actually to be going to pieces." The American Earthquake bookends this chronicle with a collection of Wilson's non-literary articles-including criticism, reportage, and some fiction-from the years of "The Follies," 1923-1928, and the dawn of the New Deal, 1932-1934. During this period, Wilson had grown from a little-known journalist to one of the most important American literary and social critics of the century. The American Earthquake amply conveys the astonishing breadth of Wilson's talent, provides an unparalleled vision of one of the most troubling periods in American history, and, perhaps inadvertently, offers a self-portrait comparable to The Education of Henry Adams. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing.

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• Titre: The American Earthquake; A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties
• Éditeur: Doubleday Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, NY
• Date de parution: 1958
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Fair
• État de la jaquette: fair