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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.
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- Author
- Henry Adams
- First published
- 1907
- Pages
- 505
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press, Printed at the Riverside Press for the Massachusetts Historical Society, Blurb
- Editions
- 181
- Language
- English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9781540392251
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“UNDER the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds, to Mount Vernon Street, on the summit of Beacon Hill; and there, in the third house below Mount Vernon Place, February 16, 1838, a child was born, and christened later by his uncle, the minister of the First Church after the tenets of Boston Unitarianism, as Henry Brooks Adams.”
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