Marilynne Robinson

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Marilynne Robinson repeatedly sends her reader back to the primary texts that are central to the development of American culture but little read or acknowledged today. A passionate and provocative celebration of ideas, the old arts of civilization, and life's mystery, The Death of Adam is, in the words of Robert D. Richardson, Jr., "a grand, sweeping, blazing, brilliant, life-changing book."

At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit. Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom , and Selected Short Stories The Sound and the Fury, first published in 1929, is perhaps William Faulkner's greatest book. It was immediately praised for its innovative narrative technique, and comparisons were made with Joyce and Dostoyevsky, but it did not receive popular acclaim until the late forties, shortly before Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues of the idiot Benjy and his brothers, Quentin and Jason. Featuring a new Foreword by Marilynne Robinson, this edition follows the text corrected in 1984 by Faulkner expert Noel Polk and corresponds as closely as possible to the author's original intentions. Included also is the Appendix that Faulkner wrote for The Portable Faulkner in 1946, which he called the "key to the whole book."

I ei tid prega av splitting og eit stadig snevrare offentleg ordskifte, rettar Marilynne Robinson blikket mot klassiske amerikanske forfattarar og tenkarar for å finne att noko av det vi har mista på vegen. Hos mellom andre Edgar Allan Poe og Jean Calvin finn ho ein gløymd humanisme som sameiner tru, metafysikk og fri tanke. I moderne tid har vi derimot fått ei innsnevra forståing av kva mennesket er og kan vere. Men skaparevna vår, og frirommet som finst i litteraturen, gir oss likevel grunn til håp. Essayet er ei kraftfull oppmoding om å gjenoppdage vår åndelege og menneskelege forplikting. Denne boka er den skriftlege utgåva av Fosseforedraget 2026. Om tru og tankefridom av Marilynne Robinson er det andre bidraget i denne rekkja med foredrag om litteratur og kunst – ei satsing til ære for den fjerde norske nobelprisvinnaren i litteratur.