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Edmund Wilson

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May 08, 1895 in The United States

died

June 12, 1975

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Edmund Wilson was an American writer and literary and social critic. He is considered by many to have been the 20th century's preeminent American man of letters.

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Average rating: 3.98 · 1,937 ratings · 200 reviews · 79 distinct works

	To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson, Louis Menand (Introduction) 4.02 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 1940 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 by Edmund Wilson, Mary Gordon (Introduction) 4.01 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1931 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson, Louis Menand (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1942 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War 4.08 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1961 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s by Edmund Wilson, Lewis M. Dabney (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Shores Of Light: A Literary Chronicle Of The Twenties And Thirties 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1952 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature by Edmund Wilson, Janet Groth (Contribution by) 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1947 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s by Edmund Wilson, Lewis M. Dabney (Editor) 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The American Earthquake: A Chronicle Of The Roaring Twenties, The Great Depression, And The Dawn Of The New Deal by Edmund Wilson, Alfred Kazin 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1958 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Upstate by Edmund Wilson, Richard Hauer Costa (Adapted by) 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“No two persons ever read the same book.”
― Edmund Wilson

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“There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.”
― Edmund Wilson

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“I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.”
― Edmund Wilson

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