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Lionel Trilling
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
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The great critic’s masterwork makes a case for the necessity of the imaginative works in a society ever more worshipful of the liberal ideals of rationality and progress.
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
Published in 1947, as the cold war was heating up, Lionel Trilling’s only novel was a prophetic reckoning with the bitter ideological disputes that were to come to a head…
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Trilling is concerned with the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one’s self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral…
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Lionel Trilling (New Directions)
A concise critical study of Forster’s personality, short stories, and novels.
John Rodden
A comprehensive portrait of Lionel Trilling, perhaps the most influential American cultural critic of the twentieth century. The contributors are a who’s who of Anglo-American intellectuals from the 1930s through…
A great critic’s quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence.
Gertrude Himmelfarb
The Moral Imagination describes how some of the most provocative thinkers of modern times, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, and writing in different genres, shared a moral…
Bringing together the thoughts of one of American literature’s sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of Lionel Trilling. Trilling…
Presents selections from such authors as Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, and George Meredith.
Lionel Trilling (1905 - 1975) wanted very much to be a novelist. His short stories appeared in The Menorah Journal and Partisan Review , and he published one novel in…
This volume devotes over 100 pages to William Blake, including The Book of Thel and the entire Night the Ninth from The Four Zoas, as well as excerpts from Milton…
Edward Alexander
This pioneering effort links history and personality by pairing intellectual friends, most notably Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe, but also Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, D
Michael Kimmage
Kimmage tells the story of postwar America’s political evolution through Trilling and Chambers, who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation. Kimmage argues…
E M Forster
This Warbler Classics edition includes an historically interesting essay by legendary contemporary critic and American public intellectual Lionel Trilling along with a detailed biographical timeline.
Peter Rawlings
Rawlings’ book explores the work of revolutionary critics - Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth. Packed with student-friendly features, he discusses their ideas on moral intelligence, realism and…
Robert Warshow
This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of Commentary magazine who died, at age 37, in 1955…
Norman Padhoretz
Presents portraits of some of the cultural icons who defined our time. This book offers a journal de combat describing the intellectual and social turbulence of the 60s and 70s…
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