Bibliograph

When I was a child I read books, Marilynne Robinson

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When I was a child I read books, Marilynne Robinson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

When I was a child I read books

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

740628822

Responsibility statement

Marilynne Robinson

Summary

In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature

Table Of Contents

Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide : Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas : Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology

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