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A Henry Adams reader /

Основен автор: Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.
Други автори: Stevenson, Elizabeth, 1919-1999, (ed.)
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Gloucester, Mass. : P. Smith, 1968 [c1958]
Съдържание:
  • Journalist. Henry Adams meets Garibaldi ; Captaine John Smith ; The New York gold conspiracy
  • Novelist. Mount Vernon picnic ; The American girl
  • Biographer. The importance of Albert Gallatin ; John Randolph's eccentricities
  • Historian. Toussaint Louverture ; Harrison and Tecumthe ; Tippecanoe ; Privateering
  • Letter writer. Samoa, 1890
  • Mediaevalist. La chanson de Roland ; Roses and apses ; The three queens
  • Autobiographer. Quincy ; A law of acceleration
  • Verse writer. Buddha and Brahma ; Prayer to the virgin of Chartres
  • Speculative essayist. The tendency of history ; The rule of phase applied to history.