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  • The Education of Henry Adams

    by Henry Adams ...
    QUINCY (1838-1848) UNDER the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds, to Mount Vernon Street, on the summit of Beacon Hill; and there, in the third house below Mount Vernon Place, February 16, 1838, a child was born, and christened later by his uncle, the ... Read more

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  • The Education of Henry Adams

    by Henry Adams ...
    "The Education of Henry Adams", the most famous work of its author, was originally intended only for a small audience; after its posthumous publication in 1918, it promptly won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1919, and it is still regarded as a masterpiece of American literature."The Education of Henry Adams" is a brilliant autobiography of this relevant American historian. A member of the Adams ... Read more

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  • Democracy, an American Novel

    by Henry Adams ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • The Education of Henry Adams

    by Henry Adams ...
    The Modern Library's number-one nonfiction book of the twentieth century and winner of the Pulitzer Prize: The acclaimed memoir of a brilliant man reckoning with an era of profound changeThe great-grandson of President John Adams and the grandson of President John Quincy Adams, Henry Adams possessed one of the most remarkable minds of his generation. Yet he believed himself fundamentally unsuited ... Read more

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  • The Poetic Edda

    by Henry Adams Bellows ...
    THERE is scarcely any literary work of great importance which has been less readily available for the general reader, or even for the serious student of literature, than the Poetic Edda. Translations have been far from numerous, and only in Germany has the complete work of translation been done in the full light of recent scholarship. In English the only versions were long the conspicuously ... Read more

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  • Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

    by Henry Adams ...
    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams is a contemplative exploration of medieval architecture, art, and culture, framed around two iconic French sites: the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel and the cathedral of Chartres. Through a blend of historical analysis and personal reflection, Adams examines the significance of these structures as embodiments of the medieval spirit and their lasting impact ... Read more

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  • Democracy: An American Novel

    by Henry Adams ...
    An instant bestseller when first published in 1880, "Democracy: An American Novel" is the quintessential American political novel.Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author.Though the book avoids dates and the characters are fictitious, the setting is no doubt that of Washington in the 1870s, the age of Presidents Grant and Hayes.At its heart is ... Read more

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  • Buddha and Brahma

    by Henry Adams ...
    Yale Law Review in Oct. 1915. Written in 1891 aboard ship while on trip with John La Farge. On 26 April 1895 Adams sent the above to his friend John Jay. THE Buddha, known to men by many names — Siddartha, Sakya, Muni, Blessed One ... Read more

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  • The Education of Henry Adams

    by Henry Adams ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, his The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and the country's education from ... Read more

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  • The Education of Henry Adams

    by Henry Adams ...
    Series series Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time'I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams,' said Gore Vidal. 'He was remarkably prescient about the coming horrors.'His political ideals shaped by two presidential ancestors—great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams—Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to ... Read more

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  • The Works Of Henry Adams

    by Henry Adams ...
    The works of Henry Adams in one collection with an active table of contents.Works include:Democracy: An American NovelThe Education of Henry AdamsEsther: A NovelMont-Saint-Michel and Chartres ... Read more

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  • Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

    by Henry Adams ...
    Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments of a past civilization. With daring and inventive conceits, Adams looks at the ordinary ... Read more

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