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Author:Edmund Wilson

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Edmund Wilson
(1895–1972)

American writer and literary critic

Edmund Wilson

Works

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Books

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  • The Undertaker's Garland (1922), with John Peale Bishop (start transcription)
  • Discordant Encounters: Plays and Dialogues (1926)


Fiction

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  • "Galahad", 1927 (short story)
  • I Thought of Daisy, 1929 (novel)
  • Memoirs of Hecate County, Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1946 (short stories)

Plays

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  • Cyprian's Prayer 1924
  • The Crime in the Whispering Room 1927
  • This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches 1937 (original title "A Winter in Beech Street")
  • Beppo and Beth 1937
  • The Little Blue Light 1950
  • Five Plays 1954 collects Cyprian's Prayer, The Crime in the Whispering Room, This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches, Beppo and Beth, and The Little Blue Light.
  • Dr. McGrath 1967
  • The Duke of Palermo 1969
  • Osbert's Career, or the Poet's Progress 1969

Posthumous books

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  • The Devils and Canon Barham; Ten Essays on Poets, Novelists and Monsters, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973
  • The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, ed. Leon Edel, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975
  • Letters on Literature and Politics, ed. Elena Wilson, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977
  • The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, ed. Leon Edel, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980
  • The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, ed. Leon Edel, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983
  • The Portable Edmund Wilson, ed. Lewis M. Dabney., New York, NY: Viking Press, 1983
  • Wilson, Edmund (1986), Edel, Leon, ed., The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. .
  • Wilson, Edmund (1993), Dabney, Lewis M, ed., The Sixties: The Last Journal 1960–1972, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. .
  • Wilson, Edmund (1995), Groth, Janet & Castronovo, David, eds., From the Uncollected Edmund Wilson, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. .
  • Wilson, Edmund (1997), Dabney, Lewis, ed., The Edmund Wilson Reader, New York, NY: Da Capo Press. .
  • Wilson, Edmund (2001), Groth, Janet & Castronovo, David, eds., Edmund Wilson: The Man in Letters, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. .
  • Wilson, Edmund (2001), Karlinsky, Simon, ed., Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940–1971, (revised & expanded ed.), Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. .
  • Wilson, Edmund (2007a), Dabney, Lewis M, ed., Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s: The Shores of Light, Axel's Castle, Uncollected Reviews, New York: Library of America, ISBN 978-1-59853-013-1. .
  • Wilson, Edmund (2007b), Dabney, Lewis M, ed., Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, Classics and Commercials, Uncollected Reviews, New York: Library of America, ISBN 978-1-59853-014-8. .


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1972, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 51 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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