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Edmund Wilson

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Edmund Wilson


Born
in The United States
May 08, 1895

Died
June 12, 1972


Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. See also physicist Edmund Wilson.

Influential works of American literary critic Edmund Wilson include Axel's Castle (1931), a study of the symbolist movement, and Patriotic Gore (1962), a critique of literature from the Civil War era.

Many consider this social writer as preeminent man of letters of the 20th century.

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Average rating: 3.96 · 7,460 ratings · 749 reviews · 230 distinct worksSimilar authors
To the Finland Station

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4.11 avg rating — 1,412 ratings — published 1940 — 66 editions
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Axel's Castle: A Study of t...

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4.08 avg rating — 450 ratings — published 1931 — 78 editions
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in ...

4.09 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 1962 — 20 editions
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Memoirs of Hecate County

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3.69 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 1942 — 80 editions
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The Scrolls from the Dead Sea

3.60 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1955 — 56 editions
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The Wound and the Bow: Seve...

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4.01 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1941 — 34 editions
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Literary Essays and Reviews...

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4.21 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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Literary Essays and Reviews...

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4.27 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2007
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The Shores of Light: A Lite...

4.07 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1952 — 19 editions
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I Thought of Daisy

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3.31 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1929 — 17 editions
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“No two persons ever read the same book.”
Edmund Wilson

“I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.”
Edmund Wilson

“No hay dos personas que lean el mismo libro.”
Edmund Wilson