The thirties : from notebooks and diaries of the period / by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introd. by Leon Edel.

With hard-and supercover

Includes bibliogr. references and index

Cont.: Thirties: 1930-1935: New York and Washington, 1930 -- Provincetown -- Detroit, February 1931 -- Kentucky and the South -- Virginia and the Southwest -- California -- Back East -- Pineville, Kentucky: Coal Strike, 1932 -- Provincetown and New York -- Notes for Beppo and Beth -- Death of Margaret -- New York and Chicago -- New York, 53rd Street, 1932-33 -- 314 East 53rd Street -- Washington, 1934 -- Provincetown, 1934 -- Chicago and New York -- 1935-1940: Journey to the Soviet Union, 1935 -- Chicago and New York -- Provincetown, 1936 -- Stamford, 1936 -- Concord -- New York and Stamford, 1937 -- Stamford and Provincetown, 1938 -- Chicago and Truro Center, 1939-1940.

In Wilson's journal of the 1930's the narrator moves from the youthful concerns of the Jazz Age to his more substantial middle years, exploring the decade's plunge from affluence and exploring the tenets of Communism. His personal life is also amply represented, from his marriage to Margaret Canby and her subsequent death to various erotic episodes with unidentified women.