The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel (The Works of George Santayana) - Softcover

A novel of of ideas, expressed in the birth, life, and early death of Oliver Alden.

First 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. In Oliver's case the puritanical self-destruction that prevented him from realizing his own spirituality is transcended by his attainment of the type of self knowledge that Santayana recommends throughout his moral philosophy.|First published in 1935, 'The Last Puritan' was the American philosopher's only novel, and it became an instant best seller. It is a novel of ideas expressed in the birth, life, and early death of Oliver Alden.