The bit between my teeth : a literary chronicle of 1950-1965 /
This book, with its companion volumes "The shores of light" and "Classics and commercials", provides a chronicle of the literary world in America and Europe from the twenties to the present.
| Основен автор: | Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
c1965.
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Съдържание:
- A modest self-tribute
- John Peale Bishop
- Sheilah Graham and Scott Fitzgerald
- Mencken through the wrong end of the telescope
- The last phase of Bernard Shaw
- A miscellany of Max Beerbohm
- The pre-presidential T.R.
- The Holmes-Laski correspondence
- George Ade: the city uncle
- "The country I remember"
- Logan Pearsall Smith:
- Hannah Whitall Smith ;
- The ghost of an Anglophile ;
- The narrative of Robert Gathorne-Hardy
- Eric Partridge, the word king
- André Malraux: the museum without walls
- Mario Praz: The romantic agony
- The vogue of the Marquis de Sade
- The documents on the Marquis de Sade
- Swinburne's letters and novels
- Emergence of Angus Wilson
- Is it possible to pat Kingsley Amis?
- Cavalier and Yankee
- The James Branch Cabell case reopened
- James Branch Cabell: 1879-1958
- Oo, those awful orcs!
- Bees, wasps and bombers
- Mycophile and mycophobe
- W.H. Auden in America
- "Miss Buttle" and "Mr. Eliot"
- Words of ill-omen
- Doctor Life and his guardian angel
- Legend and symbol in Doctor Zhivago
- Donmanship
- The albums of Edward Gorey
- Max Nomad and Waclaw Machajski
- George F. Kennan
- That summer in Paris
- Dawn Powell: Greenwich Village in the fifties
- An interview with Edmund Wilson
- Newton Arvin's Longfellow
- A postscript to Fowler: current clichés and solecisms
- More notes on current clichés
- Every man his own Eckermann
- My fifty years with dictionaries and grammars
- The genie of the Via Giulia.