Farrar, Straus
8l.
Giroux
announces the
first volume of
Edmund Wilson's
journals
APRELUDE
L~dscapes.
Characters and
Conversationsfrom the Earlier
Years
ofMy Life
In
his foreword, Mr.Wilsonwrites:
~In
the summer of 1914, I began
keeping a notebook, which eventu–
ally turned into something more
llkeajoumal--thoughkneverbe–
came for any length of time a day–
by-day diary.
I
never noted the
weather or recorded everything
that
I
did but only aimed to catch
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things
that struckme
as significant or
interesting. This
volume is a first
installment. At
I have had to fill them in with
something in the nature of remi–
niscences. Later on,
I
came to de–
velop this
chronicle on
a
very
much
scale, and even to some
organize it in the form of .
that consisted of .intel'WOVell
ments.of experience. •••"
The sections of this joumai
"First Trip to
Europe,"
"l
"School and College
Fri
"Princeton, 1912-1916,"
Army,
1917-1919."A P
also includes "The
Death
of
a
dier" and "Lieutenant
F
Now available
in
one volume
Edmund Wilson's
first
nove~
and a long short story out
of
print for many years
GALAHAD and
I THOUGHT OF DAISY
Gala1tad,
a
long short story
writt~iD
early twenties, i. the .tory of •
boy •
preparatory school who
is
to
be
e
President of the school YMCA
the
fo
year. When he meets, falls
in
love
almost seduced. by
a
girl durin,
.
holiday, he linda himself unable
to
the fervid morality of the
Y.
Edmundwu.oawrites:«ITmupdoi~
first
published in 1929 and
written
under the inlluenc:e of Proust aod
J."..,
intended, like
Uly.:re.
and
.A
I.
R
du
Temps Perdu,
to
be
a sort of
sym
arrangement. This narrator is supposed
a typical example of the Ameri....
iDle
tual of the twenties, who is
alws)'ll
iog to formulate an attitude toward life
the United States, and Daisy
the
reality, which
is
always eludinc
his _
Both
in one volume:
Cloth
$5.50;
Noonday paperback
$l.95
(FARRAR
Now ••,...
STRAUS
GIROUX
