A Literary Chronicle 19201920 Author:Edmund Wilson "This book is composed of selections [which represent] a segment of Mr. Wilson's critical and journalistic work from the '20s and '30s to the '50s . . . gives us Mr. Wilson's views of these significant and exciting times mainly from the aspect of their literary culture . . . Scott Fitzgerald, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Jean Pau... more »l Sartre, among others . . . But what comes through in this volume perhaps most forcefully of all is Mr. Wilson's tremendous quality as a writer . . . independence of point of view and a style that is . . . clear and direct in the great tradition of English prose."« less