The Thirties : from notebooks and diaries of the period / Edmund Wilson ; edited with an introduction by Leon Edel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.

Contributor:

Edel, Leon, 1907-1997.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.

Wilson, Edmund.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxii, 753 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1980]

Summary:

In Wilson's journal of the 1930's the narrator moves from the youthful concerns of the Jazz Age to his more substantial middle years, exploring the decade's plunge from affluence and exploring the tenets of Communism. His personal life is also amply represented, from his marriage to Margaret Canby and her subsequent death to various erotic episodes with unidentified women.

Contents:

Edmund Wilson in the Thirties / Leon Edel

1930-1935: New York and Washington, 1930; Provincetown; Detroit, February 1931; Kentucky and the South; Virginia and the Southwest; California; Back East; Pineville, Kentucky: The Coal Strike, 1932; Provincetown and New York; Notes for Beppo and Beth; The death of Margaret; New York and Chicago; New York, 53rd Street, 1932-33; 314 East 53rd Street; Washington, 1934; Provincetown, 1934; Chicago and New York

1935-1940: Journey to the Soviet Union, 1935; Chicago and New York; Provincetown, 1936; Stamford, 1936; Concord; New York and Stamford, 1937; Stamford and Provincetown, 1938; Chicago and Truro Center, 1939-1940.

Notes:

"First printing, 1980."

"The text of Edmund Wilson's 'The Thirties' is based on his own typewritten manuscript and certain of the typed and holograph journals in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University."--Editor's Foreword.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1980".

ISBN:

0374275726 :

OCLC:

5942714