Axel's castle
by Edmund Wilson · 1931
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Edmund Wilson's landmark work - the book that helped to establish his reputation as one of this century's foremost literary critics - traces the development of the French Symbolist movement and its influence on six modern writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valery, T.S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.
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