Download or read book The Journey Abandoned written by Lionel Trilling and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unfinished work was unearthed among his papers by City College professor Murphy, along with Trilling's own preface and commentary on the work as it stands: 24 short chapters. The novel is based on the late-life of poet Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), who got into some unpleasant business surrounding his Bath landlady and her 16-year-old ward. Trilling details the true-life incident in his preface, then moves his own story to 1930s New England.