Axel's Castle

Edmund Wilson

Original title: Axel's castle

first published 1931 Penguin, 1993 319 pages

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Edmund Wilson's landmark work - the book that helped to establish his reputation as one of this century's foremost literary critics - traces the development of the French Symbolist movement and its influence on six modern writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valery, T.S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.

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Editions we hold

Axel's castle edition · 2004 · Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 254 pages · 9780374529277
Axel's Castle hardcover · 1996 · Modern Library · 362 pages · 9780679602330
Axel's castle edition · 1993 · Penguin · 319 pages
Axel's castle edition · 1991 · Collier Books · 319 pages
Axel's castle edition · 1984 · Flamingo · 256 pages
Axel's castle edition · 1984 · Norton · 319 pages
Axel's castle edition · 1969 · Scribner · 319 pages
Axel's Castle edition · 1959 · The Scribner Library · 9780191291968

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