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Collects essays on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Keats, Wordsworth, Frost, and Austen's Mansfield Park, and includes the preface to the author's The Liberal Imagination. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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"Wieseltier ... has chosen wisely ... One can recommend this book as either an introduction to or reminder of Lionel Trilling, one of the few intelligent men of our time toward whose work ... an intellectual obligation exists."--Richard Gilman," The New York Times Book Review"
"Each essay makes points that are both fresh and timeless. The sheer muscle of the mind whose prose you are reading is evident in limber, seemingly effortless argument ... His interest in morality as expressed in literature is so deep and nuanced that reading him reminds one that to think about these matters is far more interesting, entertaining, and even exhilarating than it is improving."--Katherine A. Powers, "The Boston Sunday Globe"""
"What Wieseltier's compendium now makes available is the mind of a serious traveller to the most exalted, and often the most problematical, stations of art and ideas and manners."--Cynthia Ozick, "The New Yorker "
"Trilling constantly pits 'spontaneity, complexity, and variety' against the propensity to commiserate with, then condescend to, then coerce our peers."--"Kirkus Reviews"

"There was never just one thing, in [Trilling's] work. He was mentally indefatigable; there was order in his writing, but there was no repose."--Leon Wieseltier

"There was never just one thing, in [Trilling's] work. He was mentally indefatigable; there was order in his writing, but there was no repose."--Leon Wieseltier

"Wieseltier . . . has chosen wisely . . . One can recommend this book as either an introduction to or a reminder of one of the few intelligent men of our time toward whose work . . . an intellectual obligation still exists."
Richard Gilman, "New York Times Book Review""

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Lionel Trilling (1905-74) taught at Columbia University from 1931 until his death and was the author of many books, including Matthew Arnold and a novel, The Middle of the Journey. Leon Wieseltier is literary editor of The New Republic.

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