Author: Henry Adams

Chapters of Erie is a classic account of ruthless business practices in nineteenth-century America—in particular, Jay Gould and James Fisk's succes...

Thomas Eakins is widely considered one of the great American painters, an artist whose uncompromising realism helped move American art from the Vic...

'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included tw...

This first paperback facsimile of the classic 1913 edition includes thirteen photographs and numerous illustrations of the great cathedrals of Nort...

Thid unsurpassed work illuminates the unpopular, blunder-filled War of 1812.

The most comprehensive monograph available on the greatest living glassblower, Lino Tagliapietra Lino Tagliapietra has been described as the world’...

Henry Adams’s letters are among the best in the language. They are, in Alfred Kazin’s words, “magnificent, his most spontaneous and freest literary...

Henry Adams’s letters are among the best in the language. They are, in Alfred Kazin’s words, “magnificent, his most spontaneous and freest literary...