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The last Puritan : a memoir in the form of a novel
- Title
- The last Puritan : a memoir in the form of a novel / by George Santayana.
- Author
- Santayana, George, 1863-1952
- Publication
- New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Use in library | PS2772 .L377 1936 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965
- Description
- 4 p. l., 3-602 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- 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. Oliver escapes puritanical self-destruction, the inability to celebrate life, through a form of self-knowledge that Santayana endorses throughout his moral philosophy.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographical fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Fiction
- Bildungsromans.
- Novels (texts)
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Provenance (note)
- R.P.Blackmur's copy.
- Contents
- Ancestry -- Boyhood -- First pilgrimage -- In the home orbit -- Last pilgrimage.
- ISBN
- 0684131323
- 9780684131320
- LCCN
- 36027119
- OCLC
- ocm00275564
- 275564
- SCSB-9113958
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library