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Author Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.

Title The bit between my teeth; a literary chronicle of 1950-1965.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1965]

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PN511 .W627 1965    Available  ---
 Moore Stacks  PN511 .W627 1965    Available  ---
Description viii, 694 pages ; 20 cm
Contents A modest self-tribute -- John Peale Bishop -- Sheilah Graham and Scott Fitzgerald -- Mencken through the wrong end of the telescope -- Last phase of Bernard Shaw -- A miscellany of Max Beerbohm -- Pre-presidential T.R. -- Holmes-Laski correspondence -- George Ade: the city uncle -- "The country I remember" -- Logan Pearsall Smith: Hannah Whitall Smith ; Ghost of an Anglophile ; Narrative of Robert Gathorne-Hardy -- Eric Partridge, the word king -- André Malraux: the museum without walls -- Mario Praz: The romantic agony -- Vogue of the Marquis de Sade -- Documents on the Marquis de Sade -- Swinburne's letters and novels -- Emergence of Angus Wilson -- Is it possible to pat Kingsley Amis? -- Cavalier and Yankee -- James Branch Cabell case reopened -- James Branch Cabell: 1879-1958 -- Oo, those awful orcs! -- Bees, wasps and bombers -- Mycophile and mycophobe -- W.H. Auden in America -- "Miss Buttle" and "Mr. Eliot" -- Words of ill-omen -- Doctor Life and his guardian angel -- Legend and symbol in Doctor Zhivago -- Donmanship -- Albums of Edward Gorey -- Max Nomad and Waclaw Machajski -- George F. Kennan -- That summer in Paris -- Dawn Powell: Greenwich Village in the fifties -- An interview with Edmund Wilson -- Newton Arvin's Longfellow -- A postscript to Fowler: current clichés and solecisms -- More notes on current clichés -- Every man his own Eckermann -- My fifty years with dictionaries and grammars -- Genie of the Via Giulia.
Genre/Form Literature.
Literature.
Subject Littérature.