The Fifties - From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period

Edmund Wilson's The Fifties, edited by Leon Edel, is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties. It is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts of some of the most interesting characters of the decade, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, and Vladimir Nabokov.

"A giant's workroom we can wander through, marveling ..." - Richard Locke, The Wall Street Journal on The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Edmund Wilson
• Assisted by: Leon Edel (Editor)
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1987
• No. of pages: 712
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 41 mm
• Weight: 763 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies