TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Edmund
TI  - Classics and commercials: a literary chronicle of the forties
SN  - 0374526672
AV  - PS221 .W55
U1  - 804 
PY  - 1950///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus
KW  - American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - Littérature américaine
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Littérature
N1  - "A selection of ... literary articles written during the nineteen forties."; Archibald MacLeish and the word --; Van Wyck Brooks's second phase --; The boys in the back room; James M. Cain; John O'Hara; William Saroyan; Hans Otto Storm; John Steinbeck; Facing the Pacific --; Max Eastman in 1941 --; T.K. Whipple --; The antrobuses and the earwickers --; Alexander Woollcott of the phalanx --; The poetry of Angelica Balabanoff --; Mr. Joseph E. Davies as a stylist --; Thoughts on being bibliographed --; Through the embassy window: Harold Nicolson --; Kay Boyle and the Saturday Evening Post --; The life and times of John Barrymore --; "Never apologize, never explain": the art of Evelyn Waugh --; John Mulholland and the art of illusion --; What became of Louis Bromfield --; J. Dover Wilson on Falstaff --; A toast and a tear for Dorothy Parker --; A treatise on tales of horror --; A guide to Finnegans wake --; A novel by Salvador Dali --; A long talk about Jane Austen --; "You can't do this to me!" shrilled Celia --; Aldous Huxley in the world beyond time --; Vladimir Nabokov on Gogol --; Katherine Anne Porter --; A picture to hang in the library: Brooks's Age of Irving --; Why do people read detective stories? --; Bernard Shaw on the training of a statesman --; Reexamining Dr. Johnson --; Leonid Leonov: the sophistication of a formula --; Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd? --; "Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" --; Glenway Wescott's war work --; A cry from the unquiet grave --; Tales of the marvellous and the ridiculous --; Thackeray's letters: a Victorian document --; Splendors and miseries of Evelyn Waugh --; George Saintsbury's centenary --; Ambushing a best-seller --; The apotheosis of Somerset Maugham --; William Saroyan and his darling old Providence --; Oscar Wilde: "One must always seek what is most tragic" --; George Grosz in the United States --; An old friend of the family: Thackeray --; Gilbert without Sullivan --; George Saintsbury: gourmet and glutton --; Books of etiquette and Emily Post --; A dissenting opinion on Kafka --; Jean-Paul Sartre: the novelist and the existentialist --; The musical glasses of Peacock --; Edith Wharton: a memoir by an English friend --; The sanctity of Baudelaire --; Van Wyck Brooks on the Civil War period --; An analysis of Max Beerbohm --; The original of Tolstoy's Natasha --; "The most unhappy man on Earth" --; William Faulkner's reply to the civil-rights program --; In memory of Octave Mirbeau --; A revival of Ronald Firbank --; Paul Rosenfeld: three phases
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/classicscommerci00wils
ER  -