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Winter 1942 • Vol. IV No. 1 • Book Reviews |

Greatness with One Fault in It

By Lionel Trilling

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans. Houghton Mifflin. $3.50  

 

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Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) was an American literary critic, author, and University Professor at Columbia University. Among the most influential of his many works are two collections of essays, The Liberal Imagination and The Opposing Self; a critical study of E. M. Forster; and one novel, The Middle of the Journey.

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Literature and Power

By Lionel Trilling

Sometimes we of the English-teaching profession must wonder whether our social function is anything more than pious—whether we are expected to do more than perform levitical chores in the temple […]

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Little Dorrit

By Lionel Trilling

Little Dorrit is one of the three great novels of Dickens’ great last period, but of the three it is perhaps the least established with modern readers. When it first […]

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