Cover of The Thirties

The Thirties

by Edmund Wilson · 1980

+ Want to read

In Wilson's journal of the 1930's the narrator moves from the youthful concerns of the Jazz Age to his more substantial middle years, exploring the decade's plunge from affluence and exploring the tenets of Communism. His personal life is also amply represented, from his marriage to Margaret Canby and her subsequent death to various erotic episodes with unidentified women.

Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
Themes
writerswritersMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 785 pages
Form
diarydiaryMore like thisLess of this

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare prices

Liked The Thirties? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Thirties. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment Alfred Kazin · 1996 Shares critics, writers, diary
  2. Continual Lessons: The Journals of Glenway Wescott, 1937-1955 Glenway Wescott · 1991 Shares american, diary, writers
  3. Edmund Wilson Lewis M. Dabney · 1997 Shares critics, american, biography
  4. Critic in love David Castronovo · 2005 Shares critics, american, biography
See more recommendations →

“If you want more of the same (biography about writers), start with these.”

  1. The Journey is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies Helen Bevington · 1983
  2. The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Volume 4 Anais Nin · 1978
  3. Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 2 Miguel de Unamuno · 1985
  4. Scenes and Apparitions Roy C. Strong · 2016

“If it was the american that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Stephen Spender David A. Leeming · 1999
  2. To the life of the silver harbor Reuel K. Wilson · 2008
  3. Keeping Literary Company: Working with Writers Since the Sixties Jerome Klinkowitz · 1998
  4. The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843-1846 Louisa May Alcott · 2000

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Mr. Jefferson's Women Jon Kukla · 2005
  2. If Love Were Oil, I'd Be about a Quart Low Lewis Grizzard · 1983
  3. The House on the Embankment Yury Trifonov · 1976
  4. Bloody Flies Andrew J. Keir, J. Andrew Keir · 2012

Report a problem