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Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

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Waking Lion Press
25 October 2025
Biography: literary; History of the Americas; Educational strategies & policy
Born into one of America's most distinguished families-great-grandson and grandson of presidents-Henry Adams seemed destined for greatness. Yet in this extraordinary autobiography, Adams chronicles not triumph but profound bewilderment: the story of a privileged nineteenth-century gentleman struggling to comprehend the explosive forces reshaping the modern world.

From the halls of Harvard to the corridors of diplomatic power, from the spiritual unity of medieval Mont-Saint-Michel to the chaotic energy of the 1900 Paris Exposition, Adams charts his lifelong quest for understanding in an age of dizzying transformation. With penetrating intellect and characteristic irony, he examines his own ""miseducation""-how his classical training left him unprepared for a world of dynamos, scientific revolutions, and the acceleration of history itself.

Part memoir, part meditation on American identity, part philosophical inquiry into the nature of knowledge, The Education of Henry Adams stands as one of the supreme achievements of American literature. Using luminous prose and referring to himself in the third person, Adams crafts a uniquely modern autobiography-one that captures the vertigo of living between two eras and asks timeless questions about how we prepare ourselves for an unknowable future.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this masterwork remains startlingly relevant: a meditation on disorientation, education, and the human struggle to find meaning in an age of perpetual change.
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Imprint:   Waking Lion Press
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 32mm
Weight:   816g
ISBN:   9781434105936
ISBN 10:   1434105938
Pages:   620
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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