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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
By
Lionel Trilling and
Leon Wieseltier (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication date
October 1, 2001
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374527990
ISBN-10
0374527997
Dimensions
1.25 by 5.25 by 8.25 in.
Weight
1.15 lbs.
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Out of Print
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$20.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
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.
(view table of contents)Amazon.com description: Product 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.
Editions
Paperback
Reprint edition from Northwestern Univ Pr (August 28, 2008)
9780810124882 | details & prices | 572 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.50 in. | 1.48 lbs | List price $19.95
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Reprint edition from Farrar Straus & Giroux (October 1, 2001)
9780374527990 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $20.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
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