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  • The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent

    Selected Essays

    by Lionel Trilling ...
    A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest workLionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work has been discussed and hotly debated, yet today, when writers and critics claim to be "for" or "against" his interpretations, they can hardly be ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Liberal Imagination

    by Lionel Trilling ...
    The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Sincerity and Authenticity

    by Lionel Trilling ...
    Series Book 31 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “A powerful diagram of the moral life from Shakespeare to the present...a book crowded with insights.”—Geoffrey Hartman, New York TimesOne of the twentieth century’s foremost literary critics traces the idea of the self across five hundred years of Western cultural history.“One cannot both be sincere and seem so,” André Gide once wrote. Attempting to inhabit sincerity to satisfy social ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Life in Culture

    Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling

    by Lionel Trilling ...
    A great literary critic's quarrels with himself and others, revealed through his personal correspondence: "A joy to read." — Library Journal (starred review)In the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America's most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture, and our selves. His 1950 collection, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • The Middle of the Journey

    by Monroe Engel, Lionel Trilling ...
    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 in the McCarthy era. The Middle of the Journey revolves around a political turncoat and the anger his action awakens among a group of intellectuals summering in Connecticut. The story, however, is less concerned with the rights ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Room with a View (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by E. M. Forster, Lionel Trilling ...
    Set in early 1900s Italy and England, A Room with a View offers a humorous critique of Edwardian-era society. The novel begins in Florence, Italy, where Miss Lucy Honeychurch, who is chaperoned by her spinster cousin Miss Charlotte Bartlett, arrive at the Pensione Bertolini to find that instead of rooms with a view of the Arno, as promised, theirs face a drab courtyard. Another guest spontaneously ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud

    by Ernest Jones, Lionel Trilling, Steven Marcus ...
    The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones, edited and abridged in one volume by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus (244,000 words, 31 illustrations)Ernest Jones’s three-volume The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud was first published in the mid-1950s. This edited and abridged volume omits the portions of the trilogy that dealt principally with the technical aspects of Freud’s work and is ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD

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    Life in Culture

    Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling

    by Lionel Trilling ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 18 min

    In the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America's most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture, and our selves. His 1950 collection, The Liberal Imagination, sold more than 100,000 copies, epitomizing a time that has been called the age of criticism.To his New York intellectual peers, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • A Passage to India

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  • SONS AND LOVERS Classic Novels: New Illustrated [Free Audiobook Links]

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