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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
de Robinson, Marilynne
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395926920
- ISBN 13
- 9780395926925
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page, with no date or inscription. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; the hard cover shows mild edgewear at the heel corners, and the dust jacket shows a short line of surface wear at the left rear, tiny crimps at corners and spine heel, and a pressure mark along the left edge of the front interior flap, otherwise well-kept, now protected in a clear sleeve.; Signed by Author.
Sinopsis
In the tradition of nineteenth-century novelists who turned to the essay, Marilynne Robinson offers a beautiful and authoritative approach to refining the ideas our culture has handed down to us. Whether considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by midwestern abolitionists; how creationism, "long owned by the Religious Right," has spurred on contemporary Darwinism; or how John Calvin, who was a Frenchman in Geneva, points to America's continental origins, Robinson writes with great conviction. Her essays are filled with the excitement of discovery. "Who can imagine how the things we call ideas live in the world," she writes, "or how they change, or how they perish, or how they can be renewed." In these ten essays, Marilynne 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," as she states in her introduction, but "Who can imagine how the things we call ideas live in the world, or how they change, or how they perish, or how they can be renewed?" In the tradition of nineteenth-century novelists who turned to the essay, Marilynne Robinson offers a beautiful and authoritative approach to refining the ideas our culture has handed down to us. Whether considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists; how Creationism, "long owned by the Religious Right," has spurred on contemporary Darwinism; or how John Calvin, who was a Frenchman in Geneva, points to America's continental origins, Robinson writes meticulously and with great conviction. Her essays are filled with the excitement of discovery.
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- Librería
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 00082283
- Título
- The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
- Autor
- Robinson, Marilynne
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395926920
- ISBN 13
- 9780395926925
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
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