Boston: Beacon Press, 1956.

Summary: “Writings on general cultural issues accompany discussions of such authors as Edith Wharton, Robert Graves, C. P. Snow, and Charles Dickens.”

Contents:

The Great Aunt of Mr. Forester

In Defense of Zola

A Ramble on Graves

The Morality of Inertia

The Dickens of Our Day

Edmund Wilson: A Backward Glance

Freud’s Last Book

The Situation of the American Intellectual at the Present Time

A Novel in Passing

Two Notes on David Riesman

Dr. Leavis and the Moral Tradition

Profession: Man of the World

Adams at Ease

The Novel Alive or Dead

Criticism and Aesthetics

On Not Talking

“That Smile of Parmenides Made Me Think”

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