Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Adams, Henry
From Roger Lucas Booksellers, Horncastle, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since November 29, 1998
Quantity: 1From Roger Lucas Booksellers, Horncastle, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since November 29, 1998
Quantity: 1About this Item
1st edition, large 4to, 192pp, photo illustrations; introduction Asa Briggs; previous owner's able label and book plate to verso of ffep and the book has a general mustiness from storage o/w VG Copy in sound DJ that has been internally strengthened about extrems Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 47599
Bibliographic Details
Title: Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Publisher: Bison Books, London
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
As Raymond Carney discusses in his introduction, Adams' freeedom from the European traditions of study lends an exuberance—and puckish wit—to his writings.
"Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres is undoubtedly Adams's greatest work; though not apparently related to his earlier writings, this inspired work of poetry is the crowning achievement of his severe and somber historical oeuvre."--Maurice le Breton
"Emerson discussed man's need to discover a system of unity for his age; Henry Adams did the same for an age when the conflict was infinitely more acute and the solution less apparently obvious."--Robert Spiller
"One has the feeling that during the process of writing, the book grew way beyond its original plan and intention to be the informal travel talk of an art tourist, or an art-uncle for nieces with Kodaks. At a certain point it almost ceases to deal with esthetic experiences and becomes a confession of a seeker after unity, of a pilgrim who hopes to find in the Middle Ages an emotional repose-peace-Nirvana."--Ernst Scheyer, The Circle of Henry Adams
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