{"product_id":"axels-castle-9780374529277","title":"Axel's Castle","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1931, \u003ci\u003eAxel's Castle\u003c\/i\u003e was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs Alfred Kazin later wrote, \"Wilson was an original, an extraordinary literary artist . . . He could turn any literary subject back into the personal drama it had been for the writer.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdmund Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. His more than twenty books include \u003ci\u003eAxel's Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePatriotic Gor\u003c\/i\u003ee, \u003ci\u003eTo the Finland Station\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of Hecate County.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Gordon \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eSpending.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50674806063378,"sku":"9780374529277","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ae933ba8-22e4-47e0-82e5-ae7aee42dc57.jpg?v=1733865982","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/axels-castle-9780374529277","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}