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The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Modern Library, 1931. first thus. Hardcover. fair. First Modern Library edition, missing dust jacket. Fair condition. Balloon cloth covered boards with gold torchbearer on front, and gold lettering on the spine; spine is faded; boards are worn with bumps, and fraying at corners and ends of spine; small closed tear in fabric on spine. Rockwell Kent end papers. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly darkening with age. This is Modern Library binding style 6. Modern Library hard cover, missing dust jacket. First edition 1931 (stated), Modern Library #76, 517 pages. 12mo (4.25"" x 6.5"") The Education of Henry Adams is an autobiography that records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838 - 1918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th-century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial publication of the book had to await its author's 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. The Modern Library placed it first in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.
Synopsis
The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death," Adams wrote and privately printed 100 copies of his "Education", a reflection on the incredible events of the 19th century. Adams meditates on his sense of disorientation with the scientific and technological expansion over his lifetime. After his death the book was commercially published, going on to become a best-seller and to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 06252102modlib76car
- Title
- The Education of Henry Adams
- Author
- Henry Adams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first thus
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Pages
- 517
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Pulitzer Prize
- Bookseller catalogs
- nonfiction;
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