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THE 40S: THE STORY OF A DECADE
THE NEW YORKER Henry Finder Editor with Giles Harvey / David Remmick Introduction
Language: English
Published by Random House, New York, 2014
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** A very nice hard cover copy with dust jacket, appears unread, without flaw. 6.5 X 9.5" 696 pages Weight Over 1 Kg. The 1940s are the watershed decade of the 20th-century, a time of trauma and upheaval but also of innovation and profound and lasting cultural change. Included in this volume are profiles of the decade's most fascinating figures; also seldom-reprinted criticism: George Orwell on Graham Greene, W.H. Auden on T.S. Eliot, Lionel Trilling on Orwell. It also includes an extraordinary selection of short stories and poetry offering a rich and surprising cultural portrait that evokes the past while keeping it vibrantly present.…
