The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
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Book Details
Author(s)
Lionel Trilling
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN / ASIN
0374257949
ISBN-13
9780374257941
Sales Rank
#1,019,542
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
With this re-publication of Lionel Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many generations, a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The exhilarating essays collected here include justly celebrated masterpieces - on Mansfield Park and on "Why We Read Jane Austen"; on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Isaac Babel; on Keats, Wordsworth, Eliot, Frost; on "Art and Neurosis"; and the famous Preface to Trilling's book The Liberal Imagination.
