Memories of the Moderns
- ISBN-10
- 0811208427
- ISBN-13
- 9780811208420
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 257
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing
- Author
- Harry Levin
Description
Essays discuss modern writers, including Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Mann, Hesse, Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Nabokov
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