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No two persons ever read the same book. - #EdmundWilson #booknerd #booktok #bookstagram
April 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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“No two persons ever read the same book.”
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May 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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“No two persons ever read the same book.”

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✒️ #EdmundWilson, American author, poet, and critic, #DOTD 12 June 1972. #Literature #Poetry
June 12, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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"No two persons ever read the same book."

✒️ #EdmundWilson, American critic and writer, was #BOTD 8 May 1895. #Literature
May 8, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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“No two persons ever read the same book.”

✒️ #EdmundWilson, American writer and critic, #DOTD 12 June 1972. #Literature
June 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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"No two persons ever read the same book."

✒️ #EdmundWilson, American critic and writer, was #BOTD 8 May 1895. #Literature
May 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Engines Of Discovery: A Century Of Particle Accelerators (Revised And Expanded Edition) by Edmund Wilson (PDF)
Author: Edmund Wilson
File Type: PDF
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July 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Edmund Wilson, crítico literario americano

Edmund Wilson, un escritor, periodista, novelista, dramaturgo y crítico literario estadounidense, falleció el 12 de junio de 1972, hace 54…

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June 11, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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Read the #MarquisDeSade’s essay #ReflectionsOnTheNovel. In part of that essay, Sade gives his advice for writing a good novel - and I hear Sade NEVER took his own advice. Much to my surprise, #EdmundWilson thought Sade gave really good advice! Do I follow Sade’s advice for writing novels? NOPE. Ⓐ
April 30, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Edmund Wilson, American literary critic

Edmund Wilson, an American writer, journalist, novelist, playwright, and literary critic, passed away on June 12, 1972, 54 years ago toda…

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June 11, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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Explore the intriguing lives of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, two renowned writers with opposing views, as they navigated their complicated friendship. Delve into their wit, humor, and quirks, a...
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December 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Paul Theroux observed that "friendship is plainer but deeper than love. A friend knows your faults and forgives them, but more than that, a friend is a witness [emphasis added.]"
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December 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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After reading Wilson's piece at home in Montreux, Nabokov cabled Barbara Epstein in New York: "Please reserve space in next issue for my thunder."
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December 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Poor Vladimir. An exile. An orphan. A stranger to two worlds and in two languages. A Conrad manqué. Wilson was trafficking in precisely the kind of "human interest" twaddle that Nabokow reviled. #TheFeud25 #VladimirNabokov #EdmundWilson
December 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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"The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov,' finally appeared in July 1965
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The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov | Edmund Wilson
This production, though in certain ways valuable, is something of a disappointment; and the reviewer, though a personal friend of Mr. Nabokov—for whom he
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December 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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What takes Pushkin 140 iambs to express takes Nabokov fifteen pages of dense analysis. The "Pedal Digression," Nabokov writes, "is one of the wonders of the work.""
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December 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Mr. Nabokov has the point of view of an old-fashioned Russian of the better classes, one, that is say, who quite normally spoke French to his equals and Russian to his servants....
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December 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The New Yorker, titled "On translating Eugene Onegin." The opening lines are famous:
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December 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Pushkin's own sketch of himself and Onegin, lounging on the Neva embankment. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
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December 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Onegin is some of the most beautiful Russian poetry ever written. Its organization is chaotic. It is all very Russian.
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December 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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"He and I disagree on everything in literature except Pushkin," Wilson told an interviewer not long before this, their final meeting. Pushkin would be the last to go.
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December 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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In his income tax jeremiad, Wilson concluded, "I have finally come to feel that this country, whether or not I continue to live in it, is no longer any place for me."
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December 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Wilson thought he "could always attend to this obligation later," and the one time he decided pay a tax bill--his 1955 book on the Dead Sea Scrolls sold well-_his check bounced.
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December 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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In October 1958, Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Literature. and Doctor Zhivago leapfrogged over Lolita to the number-one spot on best-seller lists all over the world. #TheFeud25 #VladimirNabokov #EdmundWilson
December 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Nabokov left a brief rhyme in Russian: "There are nights when as soon as I lie down/My bed sails off to Russia."
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December 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM