Classics and Commercials

Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties showcases Edmund Wilson''s critical writings spanning decades and continents. Many of these essays first appeared in the New Yorker.

Here is Wilson on Jane Austen, Thackeray, Edith Wharton, Tolstoy, Swift (the classics) as well as brilliant observations on Poe, H.P Lovecraft, detective stories, and other commercial literature. This wide-...