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Published by Viking, 1973
ISBN 10: 0670628263ISBN 13: 9780670628261
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. During World War I Malcolm Cowley was a reporter from the front for The Pittsburgh Gazette and an American Field Service ambulance driver along with Hemingway, Cummings and so many other "lost generation" writers. After the war, he returned to Paris and rubbed shoulders among the American literary artist expatriates in 1920's Paris. The book consists of eleven chapters: two bookend chapters set up and sum up this generational literary era (I.The Other War as the alpha and XI.Taps for the Lost Generation as the omega), seven chapters each are devoted to well-known writers (be they mainly poets such as Cummings or Crane or chiefly novelists such as Faulkner and Fitzgerald) and Hemingway receives two chapters--one focusing on the young writer of the Paris years and the penultimate chapter extolling the virtues of the Old Lion during the later period of his career.
Published by Viking, 1954
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Near Fine copy with a previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown in a Very Good dust jacket with light edge wear & two small closed edge tears. The noted literary critic and historian's informal history of literature including his essay, "A Natural History of the American Writer." Catalog Merlot.
Published by Southern Illinois University, 1967
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Malcolm Cowley was one of America's best known and widely respected social and literary critics, a career that began in earnest in 1930 when he was asked to join the staff of The New Republic. From that auspicious beginning until his death in 1989, Cowley chronicled America's literary and social history with a keen eye for detail and a clarity of style. Editor Dan Piper has compiled this impressive collection of essays and reviews roughly from the stock market crash of 1929 to the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. The book is divided into two sections: The Social Record which illuminates the issues, problems and ideas of the period and The Literary Record with articles that deal chiefly with literary values. Cowley has provided a new retrospective essay, "Adventures of a Book Reviewer" especially for this volume. 392 pages.
Published by Southern Illinois University, 1970
ISBN 10: 0809304449ISBN 13: 9780809304448
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus dust jacket with a short edgetear and light edgewear. This volume by notedliterary critic and historian Malcolm Cowley collects 14 essays on and assessments of Hawthorne, Whitman, Horatio Alger, Hnery James, Lafcadio Hearn, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, Eugene O'Neill, and Robert Frost.
Published by Viking, 1954
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Near Fine copy with some offsetting to front pastedown & flyleaf in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. Malcolm Cowley is one of the pre-eminent 20th Century literary critics and literary historians who was part of the Lost Generation of writers and has written extensively primarily on his American contemporaries. The pieces collected in this volume include: The New Age of the Rhetoricians; War Novel: Afer Two Wars; The "New" Fiction: A Tidy Room in Bedlam; Critics over Novelists; Naturalism: No Teacup Tragedies; Cheap Book for the Millions; Hardbacks or Paperbacks? A Natural History of the American Writer; The Next Fifty Years in American Literature. Catalog Birch.