The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5

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MIT Press, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 656 pages

The fifth of eight books of the correspondence of George Santayana.

During the period covered by this book, George Santayana had settled permanently in Rome. His best-selling novel, The Last Puritan, was published in London in 1935 and in the United States in 1936, where it was chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. In 1936 Santayana became one of the few philosophers ever to appear on the front cover of Time magazine. His growing influence was evidenced further by two other 1936 publications, Obiter Scripta: Lectures, Essays and Reviews and Philosophy of Santayana: Selections From the Works of George Santayana. Also during this year the first six volumes of the Triton Edition, a limited signed edition with significant new prefaces, was published by Scribner's. Santayana continued work on The Realm of Truth and The Realm of Spirit, as well as his autobiography, Persons and Places.

 

Contents

Letters
3
Textual Commentary
431
ShortTitle List
445
Textual Notes
449
Report of LineEnd Hyphenation
517
Chronology
519
Addresses
537
Manuscript Locations
551
List of Recipients
555
List of Unlocated Letters
559
INDEX
563
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George Santayana (1863-1952) was a philosopher, poet, critic, and novelist. The MIT Press has published The Letters of George Santayana in eight books and the five books of The Life of Reason. William G. Holzberger is Professor of English Emeritus at Bucknell University.

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