The Twenties: From Notebooks And Diaries Of The Period
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact.
A landmark work of American literary memoir, The Twenties draws on the personal notebooks and diaries of Edmund Wilson — widely regarded as America's greatest man of letters — to paint a vivid portrait of a decade defined by creative explosion and cultural upheaval. Edited with an introduction by Leon Edel, the volume chronicles Wilson's intimate observations of the Jazz Age, capturing the rawness of America, the mad glamour of Hollywood, and the fierce literary infighting of New York's intellectual circles. It presents candid gossip and sharp anecdotes involving towering figures such as Scott Fitzgerald, H.L. Mencken, Edna Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Eugene O'Neill, bringing the era's personalities to life with remarkable immediacy. Wilson's prose is at once erudite and sensuous, detailing both the artistic and erotic education of a young critic coming of age in one of the most electric periods in modern American history. The result is an irreplaceable primary document — part cultural history, part personal confession — that illuminates the 1920s from the inside out.
Author: Edmund Wilson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Macmillan
Genre: American history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact.
A landmark work of American literary memoir, The Twenties draws on the personal notebooks and diaries of Edmund Wilson — widely regarded as America's greatest man of letters — to paint a vivid portrait of a decade defined by creative explosion and cultural upheaval. Edited with an introduction by Leon Edel, the volume chronicles Wilson's intimate observations of the Jazz Age, capturing the rawness of America, the mad glamour of Hollywood, and the fierce literary infighting of New York's intellectual circles. It presents candid gossip and sharp anecdotes involving towering figures such as Scott Fitzgerald, H.L. Mencken, Edna Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Eugene O'Neill, bringing the era's personalities to life with remarkable immediacy. Wilson's prose is at once erudite and sensuous, detailing both the artistic and erotic education of a young critic coming of age in one of the most electric periods in modern American history. The result is an irreplaceable primary document — part cultural history, part personal confession — that illuminates the 1920s from the inside out.