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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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HarperCollins Publishers
Language
English
Pages
206

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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
2012, HarperCollins Publishers
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When I was a child I read books
2012, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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When I was a child I read books: essays
2012, Center Point Pub.
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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.

Edition Notes

Essays.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
814/.54

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Pagination
xvi, 206 p.
Number of pages
206

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL38231530M
Internet Archive
wheniwaschildire0000robi_d0p8
ISBN 10
1443410918
ISBN 13
9781443410915
OCLC/WorldCat
775060662

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