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This Library of America volume includes the best-known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful and original minds to illuminate the American scene from the Civil War to World War I. Now brought together for the first time in a single volume, these works show the many formsfiction, poetry, philosophical and historical speculation, autobiographyin which Adams gave expression to his vision of the meaning of the unsettling changes in American life and values. Each of the two novels, Democracy and Esther , chooses a woman on whom to center the effects of social change. In Democracy , Madeleine Lee, an emancipated and idealistic young widow, moves to Washington to learn the nature of political power and is disillusioned upon discovering the intrigues of rampant corruption. The free-thinking heroine in Esther , caught in the warfare between science and religion, finds that she cannot surrender her moral independence, even to marry a clergyman. Adams, though a man of the modern world, remained in temperament a child of the eighteenth century, his political ideals shaped by his presidential ancestors, great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams. The failure

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Author

Adams, Henry; Samuels, Ernest; Samuels, Jayne

Publisher

The Library of America

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585334226

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, American Fiction