The Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts

The Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts

by Edmund Wilson
The Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts

The Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts

by Edmund Wilson

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Overview

Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts from the leading literary critic of his generation, Edmund Wilson

The characters in Little Blue Light include an old-fashioned newspaperman who has become editor of a literary magazine and is making his last stand for liberalism; his brilliant, egoistic wife, who is at once intensely ambitious and dissatisfied with everything she gets; a neurotic returned expatriate, who has found out how to exploit his neurosis by writing; the editor's twenty-six year-old secretary, who represents everything most admirable in the prep school and college tradition till he is subjected to the pressure of the contemporary world; and a mysterious moralizing gardener of indeterminate nationality.

This horrifying satirical play is a study of American types and a comment on social tendencies. It has something of the author's Memoirs of Hecate County, something of the late George Orwell's 1984, and something of Charles Addams's New Yorker cartoons


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374526665
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 12/01/1999
Pages: 163
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. His more than twenty books include Axel’s Castle, Patriotic Gore, To the Finland Station, and Memoirs of Hecate County.
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