An ambitious book by the acclaimed writer considering some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought: science, religion and consciousness, challenging the sense of logical infallibility that thinkers such as Richard...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA New York Times BestsellerA New York Magazine Best Book of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the Year Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Gilead Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation...

In our era of rampant political and cultural pessimism, we run the risk of becoming bogged down in disillusionment and losing sight of ways out of the mire. In What Are We Doing Here?, the incomparable Marilynne Robinson offers us balm:...

Acclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America. von Robinson, Marilynne

Issued into the launch list of "Faber Modern Classics". Marilynne Robinson's first novel is a powerful portrayal of loss, loneliness and the struggle towards adulthood. von Robinson, Marilynne

'Grace and intelligence . . . Marilynne Robinson defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack ObamaSetting her novel after World War II, just before Gilead, Home and Lila, Marilynne Robinson returns to the world of...

Winner of the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime . . . you reached up and put your...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK . WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION . NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK . MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD"Quietly powerful [and] moving."...

`An intellectual autobiography - a starchy, ardent and, on occasion, surprisingly personal account of what it means to be the custodian of one's conscience in a world saturated with orthodoxies.In other words, it's a passionate treatment...

A New York Times bestseller Named a Best Book of 2020 by the Australian Book Review, AV Club, Books-a-Million, Electric Literature, Esquire, the Financial Times, Good Housekeeping (UK), The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Literary Hub, the New...

In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears.The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK . NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST . NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER . A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK"Marilynne Robinson's LILA is an enthralling meditation on belief, suffering...