ROBINSON, Marilynne.
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought.
First Edition of Marilynne Robinson's The Death of Adam; Lengthily Inscribed by Her
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
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First edition of this collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Warmly inscribed by Marilynne Robinson on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
In this award-winning collection, Marilynne Robinson offers other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Calvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Robinson repeatedly sends her reader back to the primary texts that are central to the development of American culture but little read or acknowledged today. A passionate and provocative celebration of ideas, the old arts of civilization, and life's mystery, The Death of Adam is, in the words of Robert D. Richardson, Jr., "a grand, sweeping, blazing, brilliant, life-changing book."
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought.
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