Trilling, Lionel 1905-1975

The portable Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( Book )

24 editions published between 1949 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,299 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Over and above his luminous talents Arnold remains very much alive as an influence; he is the great transmitter of the humanist tradition. His was a profound and active humanism, rooted in his love for society and his idea of social wholeness. His writings shine with intelligence, amenity, and tolerance. As a poet he speaks to us more intimately than most of the other poets of his age. As a critic he speaks as a man to men. In this volume are the finest examples of Arnold's ranging thought and work. In poetry, there are the beloved familiars such as "Dover Beach" and "The Scholar Gipsy", all of "Empedocles on Etna", "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse", and the magnificent concluding section of "Sohrab and Rustum". There are fourteen of the most illuminating essays, and a collection of his letters. -- From publisher's description

The middle of the journey by Lionel Trilling( Book )

94 editions published between 1947 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,198 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

" ... Both a psychological and ideological novel, a fascinating chess game where characters, each uniquely human and yet each representative of an intellectual position, move in an intricate pattern around the central figure, John Laskell. After a nearly fatal illness, Laskell finds that he must rediscover himself and his convictions in a world which terrifies him, where old relationships and allegiances are no longer securely defined. During his convalescence in a Connecticut country town, he questions the basic assumptions of his life as they are reflected in his personal loyalties, particularly to the young couple whose false liberalism he once shared uncritically, and in his political stand, which is challenged by a friend who, once having been a Communist, has moved to a position of extreme reaction. He discovers in himself a heightened awareness of the unpredictability of love and the omnipresence of death."--Page 4 of cover

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell( Book )

17 editions published between 1952 and 2015 in English and German and held by 1,030 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"In 1936, George Orwell went to Spain to report on the civil war and instead joined the P.O.U.M. militia to fight against the Fascists. In this now justly famous account of his experience, he describes both the bleak and the comic aspects of trench warfare on the Aragon front, the Barcelona uprising in May 1937, his nearly fatal wounding just two weeks later, and his escape from Barcelona into France after the P.O.U.M. was suppressed."--Publisher's description

The moral obligation to be intelligent : selected essays by Lionel Trilling( Book )

24 editions published between 1999 and 2012 in English and Chinese and held by 970 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collects essays on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Keats, Wordsworth, Frost, and "Mansfield Park," and includes the preface to the author's "The Liberal Imagination."

Speaking of literature and society by Lionel Trilling( Book )

21 editions published between 1980 and 1996 in English and held by 877 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The fifty-nine previously uncollected short essays and reviews in this book span the writer's entire career. The chronological arrangement here shows that Trilling continually returned to the subjects of Marxism, modernism and religious and social identity. The twelfth and final volume in the uniform edition is framed with two personal reminiscenes by the editor

Prefaces to The experience of literature by Lionel Trilling( Book )

28 editions published between 1967 and 1982 in English and held by 846 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected short stories of John O'Hara by John O'Hara( Book )

5 editions published between 1947 and 1956 in English and held by 765 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Presents a selection of the author's short works, including "Too Young, " 'Bread Alone, " "Graven Image, " and "Mrs. Whitman."

Of this time, of that place, and other stories by Lionel Trilling( Book )

32 editions published between 1973 and 2004 in English and held by 754 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Born in New York and himself a professor and literary critic, the author probes the minds of the academic and the student with immense sensitivity in these five short stories

Art, politics, and will : essays in honor of Lionel Trilling by Lionel Trilling( Book )

7 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 709 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected letters of John Keats by John Keats( Book )

6 editions published between 1951 and 1956 in English and held by 685 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The letters of John Keats are, T.S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet's "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably." "Unlike other editions, this selection includes letters to Keats and among his friends, lending greater perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet. It also offers a revealing look at his "posthumous existence," the period of Keats's illness in Italy, painstakingly recorded in a series of moving letters by Keat's deathbed companion, Joseph Severn. Other letters by Dr. James Clark, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Richard Woodhouse - omitted from other selections of Keats's letters - offer valuable additional testimony concerning Keats the man."--Jacket