{"product_id":"9780374518356","title":"The Forties : From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Forties\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Edmund Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century, this installment of Edmund Wilson’s private notebooks covers the years of the 1940s, providing a rich lens into the writer’s life and the world at large.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Wilson turned forty-five in 1940, and this volume \u003ci\u003eThe Forties: From Notebooks \u0026amp; Diaries of the Period \u003c\/i\u003eshows the extent to which he was reappraising his life in the decade to  follow - saying goodbye to the drifting of the 1920s and the Marxism of  the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Published posthumously and edited by Leon Edel, \u003ci\u003eThe Forties\u003c\/i\u003e includes observations on his increasingly complicated family matters and covers appreciatively writers like Andre Malraux, W. H. Auden, and  Max Beerbohm, as well as entries from his research and travels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"We can see the beginnings of the masterly work of Wilson's later years, the studies of the American literary and mythic past on which his reputation will surely rest.\" Jonathan Yardley, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003eon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The Forties\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374518356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40594566283470,"sku":"9780374518356","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_bf8dd23c-aede-4dc6-a7f8-0a57b1783164.jpg?v=1637811198","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374518356","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}