01104cam a2200217 4500 503766296 TxAuBib 20120328120000.0 111020s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780374298784 0374298785 TxAuBib Robinson, Marilynne. When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 206 p. 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. 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. 20120328. Essays.