num_pages: 592
description: With this re-publication of Lionel Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many generations, a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The exhilarating essays collected here include justly celebrated masterpieces - on Mansfield Park and on "Why We Read Jane Austen"; on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Isaac Babel; on Keats, Wordsworth, Eliot, Frost; on "Art and Neurosis"; and the famous Preface to Trilling's book The Liberal Imagination. 
language: English
title: The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
titlecomplete: The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
genres: Literature, Books About Books, Literary Fiction, Criticism, Education, Philosophy, Essays, Writing, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 171
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux