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THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION: Essays on Literature and Society
by Trilling, Lionel
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VERY GOOD/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Viking, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. xvi, 303 pp. Green cloth, gilt lettering, green topstain. Owner name to FFEP blotted out, a clean and sharp copy otherwise. DJ price clipped, spine faintly sunned, some short tears.
Synopsis
Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) was born in New York and educated at Columbia University, to which he returned as an instructor in 1932, and where he continued to teach in the English Department throughout his long and highly distinguished career as a literary critic. Among the most influential of his many works are three collections of essays, The Liberal Imagination , The Opposing Self , and Beyond Culture ; a collection of lectures, Sincerity and Authenticity ; a critical study of E.M. Forster; and one novel, The Middle of the Journey (available as an NYRB Classic). The Journey Abandoned , an unfinished novel, was published posthumously in 2008. Lionel Trilling was married to the writer and critic Diana Trilling. Louis Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker . He is the author of Discovering Modernism , The Metaphysical Club and American Studies .
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- Bookseller
- Arches Bookhouse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6117
- Title
- THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION: Essays on Literature and Society
- Author
- Trilling, Lionel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - VERY GOOD
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking
- Date Published
- 1950
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About the Seller
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Portland, Oregon
About Arches Bookhouse
Brick & mortar humanities bookshop in Portland, OR. Philosophy, history, theology, literature, art.
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- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
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- Sunned
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- FFEP
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