FIRST COLLIER BOOKS EDITION. 1991 trade paperback, Edmund Wilson (The Crack-Up). Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. - Amazon