THE 40S: THE STORY OF A DECADE
THE NEW YORKER Henry Finder Editor with Giles Harvey / David Remmick Introduction
Language: English
Published by Random House, New York, 2014
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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**Bundle Up & Save On Postage** A very nice hard cover copy with dust jacket, appears unread, without flaw. 6.5 X 9.5" 696 pages Weight Over 1 Kg. The 1940s are the watershed decade of the 20th-century, a time of trauma and upheaval but also of innovation and profound and lasting cultural change. Included in this volume are profiles of the decade's most fascinating figures; also seldom-reprinted criticism: George Orwell on Graham Greene, W.H. Auden on T.S. Eliot, Lionel Trilling on Orwell. It also includes an extraordinary selection of short stories and poetry offering a rich and surprising cultural portrait that evokes the past while keeping it vibrantly present.
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- Title
- THE 40S: THE STORY OF A DECADE
- Author
- THE NEW YORKER Henry Finder Editor with Giles Harvey / David Remmick Introduction
- Publisher
- Random House, New York
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679644792
- ISBN 13
- 9780679644798
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 1 of 3: New Yorker: The Story of a Decade
- Seller catalogs
- History, Literature, Poetry
In this enthralling book, contributions from the great writers who graced The New Yorker's pages are placed in historical context by the magazine's current writers. Included in this volume are seminal profiles of the decade's most fascinating figures: Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Here are classics in reporting: John Hersey's account of the heroism of a young naval lieutenant named John F. Kennedy; Rebecca West's harrowing visit to a lynching trial in South Carolina; and Joseph Mitchell's imperishable portrait of New York's foremost dive bar, McSorley's. This volume also provides vital, seldom-reprinted criticism, as well as an extraordinary selection of short stories by such writers as Shirley Jackson and John Cheever. Represented too are the great poets of the decade, from William Carlos Williams to Langston Hughes. To complete the panorama, today's New Yorker staff look back on the decade through contemporary eyes. The 40s: The Story of a Decade is a rich and surprising cultural portrait that evokes the past while keeping it vibrantly present.
Including contributions by W. H. Auden - Elizabeth Bishop - John Cheever - Janet Flanner - John Hersey - Langston Hughes - Shirley Jackson - A. J. Liebling - William Maxwell - Carson McCullers - Joseph Mitchell - Vladimir Nabokov - Ogden Nash - John O'Hara - George Orwell - V. S. Pritchett - Lillian Ross - Stephen Spender - Lionel Trilling - Rebecca West - E. B. White - Williams Carlos Williams - Edmund Wilson
And featuring new perspectives by Joan Acocella - Hilton Als - Dan Chiasson - David Denby - Jill Lepore - Louis Menand - Susan Orlean - George Packer - David Remnick - Alex Ross - Peter Schjeldahl - Zadie Smith - Judith Thurman
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