The Shores of Light. A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties
- SIGNED pp. xii, 814. 8vo
- New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. First edition. pp. xii, 814. 8vo. Spine is a bit dull, slightly over-opened at title page (mended), else a very good copy in dust jacket; jacket has light wear and few thin chips to extremities, small, faint stain at base of spine (primarily visible on verso), else very good. First edition. pp. xii, 814. 8vo. Inscribed, and signed, by Edmund Wilson, to close friend, Helen Muchnic, in year of publication: "To Helen Muchnic, with love from Edmund Wilson... [followed by five more words]. Princeton, Nov. 16, 1952" (on front flyleaf).
Helen Muchnic maintained a close friendship with Edmund Wilson; they visited and corresponded regularly, over the course of more than thirty years.
Contains chapters devoted to T. S. Eliot ("T. S. Eliot and the Church of England"), Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings, H. L. Mencken, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Virginia Woolf et al. RAMSEY P. 35
Helen Muchnic maintained a close friendship with Edmund Wilson; they visited and corresponded regularly, over the course of more than thirty years.
Contains chapters devoted to T. S. Eliot ("T. S. Eliot and the Church of England"), Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings, H. L. Mencken, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Virginia Woolf et al. RAMSEY P. 35