The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel
A Classics, Philosophy, Novels book. Bizarrely, the second-place bestseller of 1935, behind Gone With The Wind.
Published in 1935, George Santayana's The Last Puritan was the American philosopher's only novel and it became an instant best- seller, immediately linked in its painful voyage of self-discovery to The Education of Henry Adams. It is essentially a novel of ideas expressed in the birth, life, and early death of Oliver Alden. In Oliver's case the puritanical self-destruction that prevented him from realizing his own spirituality is transcended by his attainment of the type of self-knowledge that Santayana recommends throughout his moral philosophy.The Last Puritan is volume four in a new critical...
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- Pages: 794 pages
- ISBN: 9780262691789 / 262691787
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whew, i finally finished it. most of the book is dreadful and excruciating; i should have guessed as much from the title. however, i thought this would be "a fiction written by a philosopher" but Mr. John Gray seems to have led me astray. lots of reference to Goethe, which i guess makes sense except only one section of the book resembles... Recensione completa qui:http://ultimavisione.wordpress.com/20... Bizarrely, the second-place bestseller of 1935, behind Gone With The Wind.
