Muir, Edwin 1887-1959

Overview

Works:	627 works in 2,347 publications in 6 languages and 46,958 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Allegories Psychological fiction Short stories Biography Detective and mystery fiction Literature Poetry Novels
Roles:	Author, Translator, Editor, Creator, Performer, Dedicatee, Annotator, Other, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Contributor, Author of introduction
Classifications:	PT2621.A26, 833.912

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Edwin Muir

An autobiography by Edwin Muir( Book )
Edwin Muir: man and poet by Peter H Butter( Book )
Edwin Muir by Elgin W Mellown( Book )
Edwin Muir by Peter H Butter( 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 )
A checklist of writings about Edwin Muir by Peter C Hoy( Book )
Edwin Muir : a master of modern poetry by Michael Joseph Phillips( Book )
Selected letters of Edwin Muir by Edwin Muir( Book )
'Keeping the sources pure' : the making of George Mackay Brown by Sabine Schmid( )
Belonging : a memoir by Willa Muir( Book )
Edwin Muir : poet, critic, and novelist by Margery Palmer McCulloch( Book )
Beyond the labyrinth : a study of Edwin Muir's poetry by Christopher Wiseman( 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 )

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Most widely held works by Edwin Muir

The trial by Franz Kafka( Book )

100 editions published between 1937 and 2010 in English and German and held by 3,137 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Narrates the experiences and reactions of a respectable bank functionary after his abrupt arrest on an undisclosed charge

The castle by Franz Kafka( Book )

85 editions published between 1930 and 2005 in English and German and held by 2,082 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In THE CASTLE, a protagonist, known only as K., struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities of a castle who govern the village where he wants to work as a land surveyor. Kafka died before finishing the work, but suggested it would end with the Land Surveyor dying in the village; the castle notifying him on his death bed that his legal claim to live in the village was not valid, yet, taking certain auxiliary circumstances into account, he was permitted to live and work there

Selected short stories by Franz Kafka( Book )

15 editions published between 1952 and 1993 in English and German and held by 2,028 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Donated by the estate of Donald S. Moore

The structure of the novel by Edwin Muir( Book )

153 editions published between 1928 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 2,021 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

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

22 editions published between 1948 and 2000 in English and German and held by 1,627 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Gift of Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut

Essays on literature and society by Edwin Muir( Book )

59 editions published between 1949 and 1967 in 3 languages and held by 1,579 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collected poems by Edwin Muir( Book )

80 editions published between 1952 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,351 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The estate of poetry by Edwin Muir( Book )

33 editions published between 1962 and 1993 in English and held by 1,114 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Josephus by Lion Feuchtwanger( Book )

18 editions published between 1932 and 1973 in English and German and held by 949 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 )

34 editions published between 1919 and 1972 in English and held by 772 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

13 editions published between 1933 and 1960 in 3 languages and held by 763 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Power by Lion Feuchtwanger( Book )

33 editions published between 1926 and 1977 in 3 languages and held by 752 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

Amerika by Franz Kafka( Book )

11 editions published between 1940 and 2019 in English and German and held by 739 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."

Success, a novel by Lion Feuchtwanger( Book )

8 editions published between 1930 and 1984 in English and Undetermined and held by 652 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 606 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

One foot in Eden by Edwin Muir( Book )

21 editions published between 1941 and 1965 in English and Undetermined and held by 587 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

30 editions published between 1947 and 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 559 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The ugly duchess by Lion Feuchtwanger( Book )

13 editions published between 1927 and 1951 in English and German and held by 558 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Historical romance based on the life of Margaretha, Countess of Tyrol in the 14th century

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka( Book )

5 editions published between 1968 and 1984 in English and German and held by 531 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin, a giant beetlelike insect, thus becoming an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, an a quintessentially alienated man

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

3 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 519 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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