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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.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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English

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Subjects
Calvinism, American Philosophy, Philosophy, Theology, Civilization, Political science, Social life and customs, Thought and thinking, Political science, philosophy, Philosophy, american, Fiction, authorship, Poetry (poetic works by one author), New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Authorship, Political science, united states, United states, civilization

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When I Was a Child I Read Books
2013, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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When I was a child I read books: essays
2012, Center Point Pub.
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2012, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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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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814/.54
Library of Congress
PS3568.O3125 W47 2012, PS3568.O3125W47 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL25078361M
Internet Archive
wheniwaschildire0000robi
ISBN 13
9780374298784
LCCN
2011041206
OCLC/WorldCat
740628822

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