The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel is a 1935 novel by the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana. Set primarily in the fictional town of Great Falls, Connecticut, it relates the life of Oliver Alden, the descendant of an old Boston family. Santayana wrote of the novel that "it gives the emotions of my experiences, and not my thoughts or experiences themselves." No. 1 on The New York Times Fiction best seller list for 11 weeks, from the issue of February 10, 1936. Wiki link