Contemporaries.
Subtitle: [Essays.
Edition: 1st ed.]
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Description: Includes essays on Herman Melville and Moby Dick, Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, Sinclair Lewis, John P. Marquand, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, John O'Hara, Nelson Algren, James Agee, Lawrence Durrell, Dylan Thomas, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, J.F. Powers, Robert Lowell, J.D. Salinger, Brendan Behan, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Philip Roth, Sholom Aleichem, Thomas Mann, and Albert Camus, among others. Includes five essays on Sigmund Freud.
Notes: Rev. ed. published as: Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present. New and rev. ed. c1982.