{"product_id":"alms-for-oblivion-9780816657384","title":"Alms for Oblivion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlms for Oblivion\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1967. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume makes available in book form a collection of seventeen essays by Edward Dahlberg, who has been called one of the great unrecognized writers of our time. Some of the selections have never been published before; others have appeared previously only in magazines of limited circulation. There is a foreword by Sir Herbert Read.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe individual essays are on a wide range of subjects: literary, historical, philosophical, personal. The longest is a discussion of Herman Melville's work entitled \"Moby-Dick - A Hamitic Dream.\" The fate of authors at the hands of reviewers is the subject of the essay called \"For Sale.\" In \"No Love and No Thanks\" the author draws a characterization of our time. He presents a critique of the poet William Carlos Williams in \"Word-Sick and Place- Crazy,\" and a discussion of F. Scott Fitzgerald in \"Peopleless Fiction.\" In \"My Friends Stieglitz, Anderson, and Dreiser\" he discusses not only Alfred Stieglitz, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser but other personalities as well. He also writes of Sherwood Anderson in \"Midwestern Fable.\" In \"Cutpurse Philosopher\" the subject is William James. \"Florentine Codex\" is about the conquistadores. Other essays in the collection are the following: \"Randolph Bourne,\" \"Our Vanishing Cooperative Colonies,\" \"Chivers and Poe,\" \"Domestic Manners of Americans,\" \"Robert McAlmon: A Memoir,\" \"The Expatriates: A Memoir,\" and an essay on Allen Tate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Dahlberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/1967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Minnesota Archive Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816657384","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45175673684105,"sku":"9780816657384","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_7cc52406-8892-4ca8-a68b-16d4ba583127.jpg?v=1768891694","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/alms-for-oblivion-9780816657384","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}