Axel's Castle

Name: Axel's Castle
Author: Edmund Wilson

by Edmund Wilson

Critical essays on modernist literature and symbolism in contemporary writing

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Edmund Wilson

America's greatest literary critic of the 20th century, Wilson wrote with unusual range and judgment across literature, history, and journalism. Axel's Castle introduced modernist literature to American readers; To the Finland Station traced the origins of Marxism. His Patriotic Gore is the most intelligent study of Civil War literature.

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