The Literary Situation.
New York: Viking, 1954. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy with some offsetting to front pastedown & flyleaf in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. Malcolm Cowley is one of the pre-eminent 20th Century literary critics and literary historians who was part of the Lost Generation of writers and has written extensively primarily on his American contemporaries. The pieces collected in this volume include: The New Age of the Rhetoricians; War Novel: Afer Two Wars; The "New" Fiction: A Tidy Room in Bedlam; Critics over Novelists; Naturalism: No Teacup Tragedies; Cheap Book for the Millions; Hardbacks or Paperbacks? A Natural History of the American Writer; The Next Fifty Years in American Literature. Item #24298
Catalog Birch.
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