The Education of Henry Adams
Written in the third person, this strange and searching autobiography follows one of America’s most privileged men as he tries, and largely fails, to make sense of the century unfolding around him. Henry Adams, grandson and great-grandson of presidents, treats his own life as an experiment in education, measuring the classical schooling of his youth against the electric, industrial world of dynamos and telegraphs he lived to see. The result is part memoir, part meditation on history, science, and the accelerating forces he felt no learning could keep pace with. Privately printed in 1907 and released to the public in 1918, it won the Pulitzer Prize and stands as a landmark of American letters. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.
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| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Editor's Preface and Preface | 8:22 | |
| 2 | Chapter 1: Quincy (1838-1848) | 42:08 | |
| 3 | Chapter 2: Boston (1848-1854) | 34:56 | |
| 4 | Chapter 3: Washington (1850-1854) | 30:21 | |
| 5 | Chapter 4: Harvard College (1854-1858) | 33:43 | |
| 6 | Chapter 5: Berlin (1858-1859) | 26:00 | |
| 7 | Chapter 6: Rome (1859-1860) | 33:02 | |
| 8 | Chapter 7: Treason (1860-1861) | 25:04 | |
| 9 | Chapter 8: Diplomacy (1861) | 39:32 | |
| 10 | Chapter 9: Foes or Friends (1862) | 36:03 | |
| 11 | Chapter 10: Political Morality (1862) | 49:12 | |
| 12 | Chapter 11: The Battle of the Rams (1863) | 26:40 | |
| 13 | Chapter 12: Eccentricity (1863) | 30:10 | |
| 14 | Chapter 13: The Perfection of Human Society (1864) | 28:42 | |
| 15 | Chapter 14: Dilettantism (1865-1866) | 32:01 | |
| 16 | Chapter 15: Darwinism (1867-1868) | 28:05 | |
| 17 | Chapter 16: The Press (1868) | 36:50 | |
| 18 | Chapter 17: President Grant (1869) | 27:03 | |
| 19 | Chapter 18: Free Fight (1869-1870) | 32:27 | |
| 20 | Chapter 19: Chaos (1870) | 32:05 | |
| 21 | Chapter 20: Failure (1871) | 31:30 | |
| 22 | Chapter 21: Twenty Years After (1892) | 36:52 | |
| 23 | Chapter 22: Chicago (1893) | 31:04 | |
| 24 | Chapter 23: Silence (1894-1898) | 31:57 | |
| 25 | Chapter 24: Indian Summer (1898-1899) | 35:32 | |
| 26 | Chapter 25: The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900) | 25:03 | |
| 27 | Chapter 26: Twilight (1901) | 24:20 | |
| 28 | Chapter 27: Teufelsdrockh (1901) | 27:09 | |
| 29 | Chapter 28: The Height of Knowledge (1902) | 19:08 | |
| 30 | Chapter 29: The Abyss of Ignorance (1902) | 20:20 | |
| 31 | Chapter 30: Vis Inertiae (1903) | 26:00 | |
| 32 | Chapter 31: The Grammar of Science (1903) | 26:24 | |
| 33 | Chaoter 32: Vis Nova (1903-1904) | 23:11 | |
| 34 | Chapter 33: A Dynamic Theory of History (1904) | 31:55 | |
| 35 | Chapter 34: A Law of Acceleration (1904) | 20:16 | |
| 36 | Chapter 35: Nunc Age (1905) | 14:20 |
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