The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel

by Lionel Trilling

Book Overview

In 1947, Lionel Trilling, the prominent literary critic, published a novel entitled The Middle of the Journey . While conducting research in the archives at Columbia University, Geraldine Murphy discovered a second novel-a clean, well-crafted "third" of a book that Trilling described as having "point, immediacy, warmth under control, drama, and even size." The Journey Abandoned was supposed to be a novel about the anomalies of heroic action in a conformist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231144504
• ISBN13: 9780231144506
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher