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The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172834Author Lionel TrillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
E.M. Forster: Critical Guidebook by Lionel Trilling 9780811202107
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The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.36A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work.Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and... -
Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.10In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to... -
Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times Samuel Moyn 9780300280128
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.48The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis "[A] daring new book."-Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post "A fascinating and combative intellectual history."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By... -
Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy by John Rodden 9780691228419
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.82The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the... -
Modernity and Progress: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell by Ronald Berman
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17Explores philosophical and aesthetic issues germane to the writings of three major modern literary figures.ReviewsBerman (University of California, San Diego) has written numerous excellent books on... -
1984 by George Orwell 9781328869333
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.88With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell's 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. "Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only... -
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The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals by Carole S. Kessner 9780814746592 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties. And yet the New York... -
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches by Winston Churchill
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used... -
The Art of Reading as a Way of Life: On Nietzsche's Truth by Daniel T. O'Hara 9780810126220
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.21In ""The Art of Reading as a Way of Life: On Nietzsche's Truth"" Daniel T. O'Hara traces critically the current reception and translation of Nietzsche's corpus and then some of Nietzsche's boldest... -
Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander by Edward Porter Alexander 9780807847220
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $36.34Originally published by UNC Press in 1989, Fighting for the Confederacy is one of the richest personal accounts in all of the vast literature on the Civil War. Alexander was involved in nearly all of... -
Animal Farm George Orwell 9780151072552
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.09With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell's 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. "Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only... -
Howards End by E. M. Forster 9780141182131
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster's Howards End explores the conflict inherent within English society, unveiling the character of a nation as never before. This Penguin... -
1984 Deluxe Edition by George Orwell 9780358375401
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77This beautiful edition of George Orwell's powerful work of dystopian fiction features a leatherette cover, gilt edging, and ribbon marker - a perfect gift for our times. In 1984, London is a grim... -
BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'More than any other American novelist, O'Hara has both reflected his times and captured the unique individual for generations to come' LA Times'On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who was later... -
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Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America by Daniel T. O'Hara 9780822330325 [USED COPY]
RRP: $134.00Booksplease Price: $16.16Empire Burlesque traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O'Hara argues that globalization has had a markedly negative... -
A Rage to Live by John O'Hara
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust' The New York TimesWhen the beautiful,... -
![The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies by William V. Spanos 9780822315841 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9908140/10924671/9780822315841__84732.1786475073.jpg?c=1 "The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies by William V. Spanos 9780822315841 [USED COPY]")
The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies by William V. Spanos 9780822315841 [USED COPY]
RRP: $134.00Booksplease Price: $44.45In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America's most distinguished critics reexamines Melville's monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon... -
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9780393966350
Booksplease Price: $19.08It is fully annotated for undergraduate readers. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a rich selection of materials, some previously unavailable, for the study of contemporary psychological, social,... -
Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography by Professor Edward Mendelson 9780691172491
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $39.96Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden... -
The New York Stories by John O'Hara
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording... -
One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir by David Lehman 9781501746451
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.01In One Hundred Autobiographies, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a frightening diagnosis and painful treatment for cancer. No matter how... -
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.03Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the... -
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert 9781399812320
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2025'Essential reading' Irish Independent'Fascinating and powerfully argued' Daily Telegraph'A vast, engaging and brilliant historical... -
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess Becca Rothfeld 9780349016245
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75From one of the most talented young thinkers in the US, a warm, funny and intellectually dazzling call for excess, ecstasy and disorder in an age of sterility and minimalism'Scintillating writing of...