Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
“After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?”
“Tiredness,” p. 68
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
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