The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Death of Adam In these ten essays, Robinson brilliantly addresses subjects that have become the territory of specialists--religion, history, the state of society. The writing is "contrarian in method and spirit," according to the author.
Full description- Publisher: Picador USA
- Published: 03 February 2007
- Format: Paperback 263 pages
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- Categories: Literary Essays | History Of The Americas | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9780312425326 ISBN 10: 0312425325
- Sales rank: 48,316
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In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of "Gilead" offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Marilynne 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."
