《A Literary Chronicle:1920-1950》求取 ⇩

Prologue，1952：Christian Gauss as a Teacher of Literature9

F．Scott Fitzgerald30

Ring Lardner＇s American Characters37

Emergence of Ernest Hemingway41

Gilbert Seldes and the Popular Arts49

Poe at Home and Abroad65

The All-Star Literary Vaudeville76

Mencken＇s Democratic Man92

The Sportsman＇s Tragedy96

Thornton Wilder102

The Death of Elinor Wylie109

Signs of Life：Lady Chatterley＇s Lover113

Dostoevsky Abroad117

Citizen of the Union123

Dos Passos and the Social Revolution128

T．S．Eliot and the Church of England133

Dahlberg，Dos Passos and Wilder138

Notes on Babbitt and More146

The Nietzschean Line161

Lytton Strachey166

André Malraux171

The Literary Worker＇s Polonius178

Letter to the Russians about Hemingway194

It＇s Terrible!It＇s Ghastly！It Stinks！206

Twilight of the Expatriates211

The Boys in the Back Room216

Alexander Woollcott of the Phalanx249

Mr．Joseph E．Davies as a Stylist254

The Life and Times of John Barrymore259

＂Never Apologize，Never Explain＂：The Art of Evelyn Waugh265

What Became of Louis Bromfield271

J．Dover Wilson on Falstaff278

A Toast and a Tear for Dorothy Parker284

A Treatise on Tales of Horror287

A Guide to Finnegans Wake295

A Long Talk about Jane Austen302

＂You Can＇t Do This to Me！＂Shrilled Celia309

Katherine Anne Porter313

A Picture to Hang in the Library：Brooks＇s Age of Irving317

Why Do People Read Detective Stories？323

Beёxamining Dr．Johnson328

Leonid Leonov：The Sophistication of a Formula333

Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd？338

＂Mr．Holmes，They Were the Footprints of a Gigantic Hound!＂346

Splendors and Miseries of Evelyn Waugh353

George Saintsbury＇s Centenary359

Ambushing a Best-Seller363

Oscar Wilde：＂One Must Always Seek What Is Most Tragic＂369

Books of Etiquette and Emily Post380

A Dissenting Opinion on Kafka389

Jean-Paul Sartre：The Novelist and the Existentialist398

The Musical Glasses of Peacock407

The Original of Tolstoy＇s Natasha413

William Faulkner＇s Reply to the Civil-Rights Program422

Index432