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Published by Little Brown, 1973
ISBN 10: 0316484180ISBN 13: 9780316484183
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 in a Very Good plus, lightly edge-worn dust jacket with some rubbing & light soiling to front and rear panels. Alfred Kazin was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America. In this volume Kazin focuses his writing skills on the post-World War II novels of Mailer, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cheever, Bellow, Pynchon, Nabokov and others. The book is both a recapitulation of modernism and an evaluation of American writers who have achieved prominence since 1945. Modernism, a favorite topic of Kazin, is in his view a literary revolution marked by spontaneity and individuality but lacking in precisely the mass culture appeal necessary to its survival.
Published by Harcourt Brace & Company, 1955
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 tight copy in a Near Fine, bright price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of edgewear. Alfred Kazin is one our most astute and insightful literary historians and critics and in these twenty-eight essays he focuses on a broad range of writers that include in part: James Joyce, Proust, Gorky, Blake, Flaubert, Thoreau, Fitzgerald, Kafka, Faulkner and other major writers.
Published by Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Very Good plus copy with some toning to the spine and a faded previous owner name on the flyleaf in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with a shallow edge chip to the front panel and sunning to the spine. Literary historian and critic Alfred Kazin traces the course of modern literature in America from the 1890s with William Dean Howell's arrival in New York to the flowering of the modern movement in 1940s.