The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel - Hardcover

Santayana, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684131323 ISBN 13: 9780684131320

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, 1977

Synopsis

The life of a young intellectual who becomes obsessed with questioning the society in which he lives

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From the Back Cover:

First 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.|First published in 1935, 'The Last Puritan' was the American philosopher's only novel, and it became an instant best seller. It is a novel of ideas expressed in the birth, life, and early death of Oliver Alden.

About the Author:

Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr., is Head of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Texas A&M University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0684131323
• ISBN 13: 9780684131320
• Binding: Hardcover