The Education of Henry Adams

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The Education of Henry Adams is an autobiographical memoir by historian Henry Adams that reflects on his life and the profound social and technological changes of 19th-century America.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf autobiographical memoir
book
nonfiction work
author Henry Adams
awarded Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
awardYear 1919
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describes American Civil War era
Gilded Age politics
political life in Washington, D.C.
rise of industrial technology
firstPublicEditionDate 1918
firstPublishedAs privately printed edition
genre autobiography
intellectual autobiography
memoir
hasPart chapter "The Dynamo and the Virgin"
hasTheme conflict between tradition and modernity
impact of science and technology
limits of formal education
search for meaning in modern society
self-critique and irony
includedIn Modern Library list of the 100 best nonfiction books
influenced intellectual history
modern autobiographical writing
language English
libraryOfCongressClassification E175.5 .A2
literaryPeriod Progressive Era
mainSubject 19th-century American society
education
history of the United States
life of Henry Adams
social change
technological change
narrativeDevice treating the author as a historical subject
narrativePerspective first-person
notableFor use of third-person self-reference to the author
oclcNumber 2339735
publicationDate 1907
publisher Houghton Mifflin
surface form: Houghton Mifflin Company
setting 19th-century America
Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston

Europe
Harvard University
Washington, D.C.
subjectOf historical scholarship
literary criticism
timeSpanCovered 1838–1905

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