The Last Puritan

Name: The Last Puritan
Author: George Santayana

by George Santayana

Philosophical novel about idealism, tradition, and American intellectual life

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George Santayana

Though primarily a philosopher and poet, George Santayana's novel The Last Puritan is a major American fictional meditation on idealism, inheritance, and New England character. Its philosophical density did not prevent it from becoming a bestseller.

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