The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Trilling, Lionel, Wieseltier, Leon

Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000-05. Hardcover. Used: Good.

New York. 2000. Farrar Straus Giroux. 2nd Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374257949. Edited and with an introduction by Leon Wieseltier . 572 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Marc J, Cohen. keywords: Literary Criticism Literature . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Bringing together the thoughts of one of American literature s sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of Lionel Trilling. Trilling was a strenuous thinker who was proud to think too much. As an intellectual he did not spare his own kind, and though he did not consider himself a rationalist, he was grounded in the world. This collection features 32 of Trilling s essays on a range of topics, from Jane Austen to George Orwell and from the Kinsey Report to Lolita. Also included are Trilling s seminal essays Art and Neurosis and Manners, Morals, and the Novel. Many of the pieces made their initial appearances in periodicals such as The Partisan Review and Commentary; most were later reprinted… Read More

First edition/first printing. Square spine, no writing/underlining/highlighting, no folded page corners. Dust jacket has no rips or creases. Not a remainder. Not a book club printing.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket; no prior owner marks; light offsetting present to free end papers, light dust top text block edge; tight bind; clean 1/4 cloth cover, bright gilt titling, lower corners bumped; dj edge wear: little rub and bump to corners but no tears; flap price present B35

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000-05-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!