Synopses & Reviews
This book was first published in 1947 with the subtitle "Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece, and England," and had been out of print for many years. It provides an informative and vivid account if these countries of postwar Europe.
Synopsis
In 1996 Edmund Wilson received the National Medal for Literature. awarded to a living American author for the excellence of his total contribution to literature, and the Emerson-Thoreau Medal for distinguished achievement in the field of literature.
In 1964 Mr. Wilson was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal, and in 1963 he was awarded the Freedom Medal by President John F. Kennedy. Edmund Wilson died in 1972.
Synopsis
First published in 1947, Edmund Wilson's Europe without Baedeker returns to print with personal notes from the preeminent author-critic.
This volumne provides an informative and vivid account of postwar Europe in the countries of Italy, Greece, and England, as well as diary entries from Wilson's many travels.
"The author--in measured, often seductive prose, makes a telling, thoughtful profile of the places visited, the people seen, and leaves in the mind a distressing picture to contemplate." - Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded.