The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel
Lionel Trilling; Edited by Geraldine Murphy
Paper, 224 pages, cover image
ISBN: 978-0-231-14451-3
$18.50
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May, 2008
Cloth, 224 pages, cover image
ISBN: 978-0-231-14450-6
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Note on the Manuscript and Related Materials
Trilling's Preface
The Unfinished Novel
Trilling's Commentary
Appendix: "The Lesson and the Secret"
Related Subjects
About the Author
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. Among his many works are critical studies of Matthew Arnold and E. M. Forster; two essay collections, The Liberal Imagination and The Opposing Self; a novel, The Middle of the Journey; and the Norton lectures at Harvard, entitled Sincerity and Authenticity. Trilling was married to the writer and critic Diana Trilling.Geraldine Murphy is a professor of English and Deputy Dean of Humanities and Arts at the City College of New York, CUNY. She has published essays on Lionel Trilling and the New York Intellectuals and is working on a book-length study, "Anti-Stalinist Poetics."
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