# The Middle of the Journey

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- Book: [The Middle of the Journey](https://www.bookquiver.com/lionel-trilling/the-middle-of-the-journey) ([The Middle of the Journey.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lionel-trilling/the-middle-of-the-journey.md))
- Authors: [Lionel Trilling](https://www.bookquiver.com/lionel-trilling), [Monroe Engel](https://www.bookquiver.com/monroe-engel)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-015-1
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2002-09-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Published in 1947, as the cold war was heating up, Lionel Trilling’s only novel was a prophetic reckoning with the bitter ideological disputes that were to come to a head in the McCarthy era. The...