Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres (Paperback)
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| Author: Henry Adams Henry Adams |
| Format: | Paperback |
Product Summary
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN-10: 1417918187
ISBN-13: 9781417918188
Buy.com Sku: 31267031
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Pages:
144
Age Range:
NA
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| 1920. With a niece's memories by Mabel La Farge. A selection of letters and notes by Adams, world traveler, cosmopolitan, and member of the most prominent family of the country, which included a grandfather and a great-grandfather who had been presidents, and a father who was Congressman and Minister to Britain. Henry Adams summarized his notions of travel in a letter to one of his nieces: My idea of paradise is a perfect automobile going thirty miles an hour on a smooth road to a twelfth-century cathedral. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. |
Author Bio
Henry Adams
Henry Adams was the grandson of President John Quincy Adams. He graduated from Harvard University, and at the age of 20 decided to be a writer. He served as the secretary of his father, Charles Francis Adams, accompanying him on a diplomatic term in England during the Civil War. At that time, Adams began publishing scholarly articles. Upon his return to the United States, he published general articles on the Reconstruction government, which showed some of the vitriol which would mark his later work. A medieval historian, Adams returned to Harvard to teach, and edited "The North American Review". Because of his schooling at Harvard and the rarefied political atmosphere in which he grew up, Adams maintained friendships with the likes of Henry James, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Henry Hobson Richardson, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John Hay. When Adams was 48, his wife Marian (also his closest friend and confidante) committed suicide. Profoundly depressed and shocked, Adams began to travel and pursue knowledge in a purer, less rigid manner than he had as a historian. A year after his death in 1918, "The Education of Henry Adams" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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