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Henry Adams Saint Michel, the Education, Democracy, Esther LIBRARY of AMERICA
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- ISBN
- 9780940450127
- Book Title
- Henry Adams: Novels, Mont Saint Michel, the Education (LOA #14) : Democracy / Esther / Mont Saint Michel and Chartres / the Education of Henry Adams
- Book Series
- Library of America Henry Adams Edition Ser.
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publisher
- Library of America, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 1983
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Political, Europe / Medieval
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Item Weight
- 28 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 1246 Pages
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This Library of America volume includes the best-known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful and original minds to illuminate the American scene from the Civil War to World War I. Now brought together for the first time in a single volume, these works show the many forms--fiction, poetry, philosophical and historical speculation, autobiography--in which Adams gave expression to his vision of the meaning of the unsettling changes in American life and values. Each of the two novels, Democracy and Esther , chooses a woman on whom to center the effects of social change. In Democracy , Madeleine Lee, an emancipated and idealistic young widow, moves to Washington to learn the nature of political power and is disillusioned upon discovering the intrigues of rampant corruption. The free-thinking heroine in Esther , caught in the warfare between science and religion, finds that she cannot surrender her moral independence, even to marry a clergyman. Adams, though a man of the modern world, remained in temperament a child of the eighteenth century, his political ideals shaped by his presidential ancestors, great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams. The failure of those ideals to withstand the challenges of an industrialized America drove him to seek refuge in the study of the medieval age of faith in France. Out of it came his skeptic's "Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres." Her presence dominates the book that followed-- Mont Saint Michel and Chartres . In evocative and sensitive prose Adams moves from the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of Chartres to the religion, literature, politics, social order, and crusades of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. Adams translates the poetry of courtly love and recounts the drama of Eleanor of Aquitaine's life and the timeless love of Abelard and Heloise. The narrative rises at the end to the brilliantly re-enacted drama of St. Thomas Aquinas' victory over the rival philosophers. If Mont Saint Michel portrayed a world unified by a common faith, The Education of Henry Adams portrayed a world irresistibly moving toward chaos. The world once unified by the Virgin was now ruled by the impersonal Dynamo and was already confronted by the "metaphysical bomb" of radium and the prospect of infinite energy for man's use. Adams balances, with extraordinary urbanity and wit, the rival claims he found as much in himself as in modern civilization. Together, these two works still pose an urgent question: can the human mind ultimately control the monstrous aggregates of power which it has wrung from nature? LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0940450127
ISBN-13
9780940450127
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1027713
Product Key Features
Book Title
Henry Adams: Novels, Mont Saint Michel, the Education (LOA #14) : Democracy / Esther / Mont Saint Michel and Chartres / the Education of Henry Adams
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Political, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year
1983
Book Series
Library of America Henry Adams Edition Ser.
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Fiction
Number of Pages
1246 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Item Weight
28 Oz
Additional Product Features
Age Range
18
Series Volume Number
1
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Copyright Date
1983
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
83-005448
Dewey Decimal
818/.409
Dewey Edition
19
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