The Education of Henry Adams (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Brooks Adams
- First Published: 1907
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, France or French people, Schools or school life, England or English people, Moral conditions, Grandparents or grandchildren, Money, Presidents, Wealth, Inventions or inventors
- Locales: Boston, MA, Paris, France, Washington, D.C., London, England, Berlin, Germany, Quincy, MA
The Education of Henry Adams, the most famous work of its author, was originally intended only for a small audience; after its posthumous publication in 1918, it promptly won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1919, and it is still regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
At the core of Adams's autobiography lies his concern that his education was rooted in the eighteenth century and thus was of little value in preparing the boy to become a success in what Adams calls the “twentieth” century (actually the second half of the nineteenth). Further emphasis is...
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