The education of Henry Adams : a centennial version

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Adams, Henry, 1838-1918

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"This new version of The Education of Henry Adams is the result of a careful re-editing of a classic book. The first, or private, printing in 1907 contained hundreds of printer's errors and editori...

"This new version of The Education of Henry Adams is the result of a careful re-editing of a classic book. The first, or private, printing in 1907 contained hundreds of printer's errors and editorial inconsistencies. Eleven years later in 1918, when the Massachusetts Historical Society and Houghton Mifflin Company published the book six months after Adam's death, the new edition amounted to a wholesale modernization of Adam's work. There had been something old fashioned about the 1907 printing. Its spelling, diction, and punctuation evoked the latter half of the nineteenth century. In 1918, however, radical editorial surgery updated and Americanized spelling, punctuation, and accidentals. Yet telling defects remained, including stylistic inconsistencies and sentences that did now parse." "This centennial version of the Education, based on the 1907 text, combines close attention to the private printing's typesetting and editorial shortcomings with valuable insights into the history of the book and Adams's reasons for writing it. Following the author's own practices in his other publications and manuscripts, the editors have regularized most of the inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and accidentals. They have also inserted marginal corrections by Adams in his working copies of the 1907 printing. An extensive list catalogs these changes. In their annotation, the editors have identified hundreds of people, places and events. And through an introductory note, an invitation to readers, and a postscript they have both traced the text's own story and offered a new and compelling interpretation of the author's motivations."--BOOK JACKET.

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