"Tight, bright, clean, slight curl. 572 pages ""meditations on questions of morality, will, freedom, art and politics, rendered with a measurable elegance of prose..."""

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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."