Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Henry Adams

Overview

Privately printed in 1904 for the delectation of his nieces (and commercially published in 1913), this extended essay by Adams is an amalgam of history, travel, and poetry celebrating—and mourning the loss of—the unity of medieval society as captured in these two great French cathedrals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411439030
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/01/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	450
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Henry Adams (1838-1918) was a journalist, historian, and the descendant of two U.S. presidents.  His studies of democracy, which culminated in his magesterial nine-volume History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (1889-91), left him profoundly disillusioned with politics.  His autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams (1918), is considered an American classic.