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Edmund Wilson has written a new introduction to his classic study of the modern conception of history in the West, and has restored the appendices which appeared in the first edition of 1940 but were dropped from subsequent editions. The book takes its title from the scene of Lenin's arrival from Germany in April 1917, ready to take over the leadership of the Russian Revolution and in doing so bring to a climax the political and intellectual movements which are the subject of this study.
List of contents
1. The Devils and Canon Barham
Two Neglected American Novelists:
2. --Henry B. Fuller; The Art of Making It Flat
3. --Harold Frederic; The Expanding Upstater
4. How Not to Be Bored by Maurice Baring
5. The Aftermath of Mencken
6. An Effort at Self-revelation
7. The Waste Land in Deshabille
8. Baldini: A Memoir and a Collaboration with Edwin O'Connor
9. The Fruits of the MLA
10. The Monsters of Bomarzo
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.
