Bibliograph

The last Puritan, a memoir in the form of a novel, by George Santayana

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The last Puritan, a memoir in the form of a novel, by George Santayana

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The last Puritan

Oclc number

275564

Responsibility statement

by George Santayana

Sub title

a memoir in the form of a novel

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

Table Of Contents

Ancestry -- Boyhood -- First pilgrimage -- In the home orbit -- Last pilgrimage

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