Europe Without Baedeker: Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England, With Notes from a Diary of 1963-64: Paris, Rome, Budapest

by Edmund Wilson

Overview

First published in 1947, Edmund Wilson's Europe without Baedeker returns to print with personal notes from the preeminent author-critic.

This volume provides an informative and vivid account of postwar Europe in the countries of Italy, Greece, and England, as well as diary entries from Wilson's many travels.

"The author—in measured, often seductive prose, makes a telling, thoughtful profile of the places visited, the people seen, and leaves in the mind a distressing picture to contemplate." - Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374505578
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	01/01/1966
Pages:	467
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.07(d)

About the Author

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded.