Volume 9, Number 5 · September 28, 1967
Early Wilson
By John Thompson
A Prelude
by Edmund Wilson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 278 pp., $6.50
Galahad and I Thought of Daisy
by Edmund Wilson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 316 pp., (paperback, $1.95) (paper)
Here are two more of those compact, oblong Edmund Wilson volumes, those books so congenial to the hand and to the eye—un-American somehow in their modest propriety of size and appearance and function. But Wilson's American publishers for some years now have issued them in this form. By this unobtrusive means, Wilson may yet become one of the very few American writers living or dead whose works exist in print in something resembling a uniform edition—probably as close to a uniform edition, anyway, as American publishers can bear to maintain, unless we could count as books those encyclopedic monstrosities of the university presses, those linoleum-bound monuments to their own footnotes which American scholars are now erecting over the machine-collated remains of our classic nineteenth-century authors.
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