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Devils & Canon Barham: Essays on Poets, Novelists & Monsters

by Edmund Wilson

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ISBN13: 9780374138431
ISBN10: 0374138435
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The devils and Canon Barham.--Two neglected American novelists: Henry B. Fuller; the art of making it flat. Harold Frederic, the expanding upstater.--How not to be bored by Maurice Baring.--The aftermath of Mencken.--An effort at self-revelation.--The Waste land in dâeshabillâe.--Baldini: a memoir and a collaboration with Edwin O'Connor.--The fruits of the MLA.--The monsters of Bomarzo.

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ISBN:: 9780374138431
Subtitle:: ten essays on poets, novelists and monsters
Author:: Wilson, Edmund
Publisher:: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Location:: New York
Subject:: American literature
Subject:: English literature
Subject:: English literature -- History and criticism.
Series Volume:: 14
Publication Date:: 1973
Binding:: HARDCOVER
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: xiv, 219 p.

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