Fiction Abandoned

The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel, by Lionel Trilling, edited by Geraldine Murphy (Columbia, 224 pp., $26.95)

A COMBINATION of internal and external factors drove Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) to become one of the most important American moralists of the 20th century, alongside rival figures such as William James, Reinhold Niebuhr, John Dewey, and Sidney Hook. Trilling’s body of writing is a permanent asset to American letters and political history.

About the Author

M.D. Aeschliman

M.D. Aeschliman is professor emeritus of education at Boston University and author of The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism (3rd English-language ed., Seattle: Discovery Institute, 2019 and French-language rev. ed., Paris: Pierre Téqui, 2020).

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The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel, by Lionel Trilling, edited by Geraldine Murphy (Columbia, 224 pp., $26.95)

A COMBINATION of internal and external factors drove Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) to become one of the most important American moralists of the 20th century, alongside rival figures such as William James, Reinhold Niebuhr, John Dewey, and Sidney Hook. Trilling’s body of writing is a permanent asset to American letters and political history.

About the Author

M.D. Aeschliman

M.D. Aeschliman is professor emeritus of education at Boston University and author of The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism (3rd English-language ed., Seattle: Discovery Institute, 2019 and French-language rev. ed., Paris: Pierre Téqui, 2020).