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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1953.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket with some edgewear to spine and shallow chipping to edges. A "Complimentary Copy" slip from the publisher tipped in on the front paste down. In this critical study of Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Ellen Glasgow and Thoedore Dreiser, Maxwell Geismar covers the years of ferment between 1890 and 1915, a period of changing trends and attitudes and of intellectual liberation as illustrated in the works and lives of these five authors. These are solid and definitive studies of significant writers and of the shifting facets if their temperaments, the central themes of their work and the conflicts of the environment..

New York:: Persea Books,, 1984.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine. Connolly spent his life immersed in literature and the arts and moved among the giants of modernism--James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Huxley, Hemingway, Gide and Ezra Pound. He was the founder of Horizon magazine and one of the foremost editors and critics of his time. This collection features thirty of his essays broken into three sections: Travel, Life and Literature, and Satires and Parodies.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1942.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with fading to the spine. Geismar assesses the impact of the social pressures that were at work on the literary output of six of America's most influential writers in the years between the two world wars. Geismar shows how the works of Dos Passos, Steinbeck, Lardner, Wolfe, Faulkner & Hemingway influenced and were influenced by American life in the 1920s and 1930s.