Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres - Paperback
by Henry Adams
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Availability:In StockContributor:Henry Adams, Raymond Carney (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1986-06-03Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780140390544ISBN-10:140390545UPC:9780140390544Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:EuropeBook Topic:France, MedievalSize:7.78 x 5.10 x 0.85 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCAMWDMDHD
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments of a past civilization. With daring and inventive conceits, Adams looks at the ordinary...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780140390544ISBN-10:140390545UPC:9780140390544Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:EuropeBook Topic:France, MedievalSize:7.78 x 5.10 x 0.85 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCAMWDMDHD
Born in 1838 into one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Boston, a family which had produced two American presidents, Henry Adams had the opportunity to pursue a wide-ranging variety of intellectual interests during the course of his life. Functioning both in the world of practical men and afffairs (as a journalist and an assistant to his father, who was an American diplomat in...
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