Muir, Edwin 1887-1959

Overview

Works:	502 works in 2,128 publications in 6 languages and 47,168 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction History Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography Allegories Short stories Detective and mystery fiction Humorous fiction Literature Trial and arbitral proceedings
Roles:	Author, Translator, Editor, Creator, Performer, Dedicatee, Author of introduction, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Contributor, Other
Classifications:	PT2621.A26, 833.91

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Edwin Muir

Edwin Muir: man and poet by Peter H Butter( Book )
An autobiography by Edwin Muir( Book )
Edwin Muir by Elgin W Mellown( Book )
Edwin Muir by J. C Hall( Book )
The poetry of Edwin Muir; the field of good and ill by Elizabeth Huberman( Book )

Edwin Muir : an introduction to his work by Roger Knight( Book )
Bibliography of the writings of Edwin Muir by Elgin W Mellown( Book )
Edwin Muir : a master of modern poetry by Michael Joseph Phillips( Book )
Selected letters of Edwin Muir by Edwin Muir( Book )
A checklist of writings about Edwin Muir by Peter C Hoy( Book )
Belonging : a memoir by Willa Muir( Book )
Beyond the labyrinth : a study of Edwin Muir's poetry by Christopher Wiseman( Book )
Edwin Muir : poet, critic, and novelist by Margery Palmer McCulloch( Book )
The golden harvester : the vision of Edwin Muir by James Aitchison( Book )
In a distant isle : the Orkney background of Edwin Muir by George Marshall( Book )
Religious experience and Christian faith by F. W Dillistone( Book )
Scottish journey by Edwin Muir( Book )
Edwin Muir : selected prose by Edwin Muir( Book )
'Keeping the sources pure' : the making of George Mackay Brown by Sabine Schmid( Book )
Twentieth-century literary criticism. excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers, 1900-1960( )

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Most widely held works by Edwin Muir

The trial by Franz Kafka( Book )

99 editions published between 1925 and 2009 in English and German and held by 3,151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A bank clerk is arrested, but is unable to learn the charges against him. A year later, he is executed

The castle by Franz Kafka( Book )

76 editions published between 1930 and 2005 in English and German and held by 2,070 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The story of land-surveyor K's obsessive attempts to reach the castle, illustrating man's struggle against bureaucracy

The structure of the novel by Edwin Muir( Book )

147 editions published between 1928 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 2,038 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A guide to constructing a novel for budding writers by one of Scotland's finest poets. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork

Selected short stories by Franz Kafka( Book )

3 editions published in 1952 in English and German and held by 1,912 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Donated by the estate of Donald S. Moore

The penal colony : stories and short pieces by Franz Kafka( Book )

18 editions published between 1948 and 2000 in English and German and held by 1,702 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This powerful collection brings together all the stories Kafka allowed to be published during his lifetime"--Back cover

Essays on literature and society by Edwin Muir( Book )

60 editions published between 1949 and 1967 in English and French and held by 1,603 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Amerika by Franz Kafka( Book )

52 editions published between 1938 and 1996 in 4 languages and held by 1,534 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Doctorow in his new foreword. "Kafka made his first novel from his own mind's mythic elements," Doctorow explains, "and the research data that caught his eye were bent like light rays in a field of gravity."

Collected poems by Edwin Muir( Book )

74 editions published between 1952 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,333 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The estate of poetry by Edwin Muir( Book )

30 editions published between 1955 and 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Josephus by Flavius Josephus( Book )

21 editions published between 1932 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 972 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

First part of a trilogy based on the life of the Jewish historian

John Knox : portrait of a Calvinist by Edwin Muir( Book )

32 editions published between 1929 and 1972 in English and held by 784 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sleepwalkers : a trilogy by Hermann Broch( Book )

17 editions published between 1932 and 1996 in English and German and held by 778 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Broch's influential trilogy examines the "loneliness of the I" stemming from the collapse of any sustaining system of values, with three stories ranging from the aristocracy to the working classes in Germany during the years prior to the First World War

The great wall of China : stories and reflections by Franz Kafka( Book )

13 editions published between 1933 and 1974 in English and German and held by 772 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of stories, fables, and aphorisms, written between 1917 and 1924

Richelieu : his rise to power by Carl Jacob Burckhardt( Book )

15 editions published between 1940 and 1967 in English and German and held by 701 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Armand Jean du Plessis, cardinal-duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac; 9 September 1585 ? 4 December 1642) was a French clergyman, noble and statesman. Consecrated as a bishop in 1608, he later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Catholic Church and the French government, becoming a Cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until his death in 1642; he was succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin, whose career he had fostered."--Wikipedia

Power by Lion Feuchtwanger( Book )

15 editions published between 1926 and 1932 in English and held by 692 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Novel is based on the life of an eighteenth-century Jewish banker, Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, who served as a financial adviser to the Duke of Württemberg and was persecuted after the Duke's death

Success, a novel by Lion Feuchtwanger( Book )

8 editions published between 1930 and 1984 in English and Undetermined and held by 681 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Transition; essays on contemporary literature by Edwin Muir( Book )

35 editions published between 1926 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 607 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

One foot in Eden by Edwin Muir( Book )

20 editions published between 1941 and 1977 in English and Undetermined and held by 576 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collected poems, 1921-1951 by Edwin Muir( Book )

27 editions published between 1947 and 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 554 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Scottish journey by Edwin Muir( Book )

21 editions published between 1935 and 1999 in English and held by 184 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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