Edward Mendelson: 3 books
Early Auden, Later Auden
A Critical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden (1907–73), one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. This book offers a detailed...
by Edward Mendelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
A deeply considered and provocative new look at major American writers—including Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and W.H. Auden—Edward Mendelson’s Moral Agents is also a work of critical biography in the great tradition of Plutarch, Samuel Johnson, and Emerson. Any important writer, in Mendelson’s...
The Things That Matter
What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
She felt rather inclined just for a moment to stand still after all that chatter, and pick out one particular thing; the thing that mattered . . .
—Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
An illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth...