Henry Adams

✍ Scribed by Samuels, Ernest, 1903-1996

• Book ID: 110193763
• Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 772 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Abridgement of the author's 3 v. biographical and critical study of Adams, published between 1948 and 1964;Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-487) and index;Brahmin Pattern -- The grand tour -- Witness to history -- A golden time -- A young reformer of thirty -- Harvard College once more -- In quest of historical principles -- The return of the native -- Literary debut -- European orbit -- The golden age of Lafayette Square -- Portraits past and present -- The forsaken garden -- The seasons of nirvana -- History and the posthumous life -- The paradoxes of Polynesia -- Between worlds -- Journey into chaos -- Brothers in prophecy -- Behind the scenes -- New England gothic -- Thirteenth-century unity -- The shield of protection -- Schoolboy at seventy -- Teachers of teachers -- The benevolent sage -- The abandoning universe