The Wound and the Bow

The Wound and the Bow contains seven essays by "The greatest literary critic of the twentieth century." -New York magazine.

Combining biographical and critical sketches, Edmund Wilson writes brilliantly on a wide-range of authors including Dickens, Kipling, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, Joyce, Jacques Casanova, and Sophocles.

"In the best tradition of literary criticism. . . combines exact information with shrewd and searching penetration into the personal life of the artist."-The New York Times