The Education of Henry Adams
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Democracy
Of the major books, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres seems to me an even greater achievement than The Education of Henry Adams, if only because the feeling it yields to, its exultation in the invoked presence of the Virgin, floats free of Adams’s irony, which in the other books is repetitive.
Books Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
- Author
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Henry Adams
- Year
- 1904
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
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From beginning to end it reads as from a man in the fresh morning of life, with a frolic quality of power unusual in historical literature.
Denis Donoghue
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The more he saw of medieval France in that golden time when Americans of his class were the happy few to enjoy Europe for its monuments, landscapes, food, and wine, the more his almost too supple imagination fastened on the thirteenth century as a drama of genius, taste, aspiration.
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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres did much to spread a violent and gloomy picture of the period in which Romanesque and Gothic art was produced.
Our Thoughts
As a dilettante’s study of art and architecture, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres is a feat. As travel writing, it’s simply among the best in the English language.
— Brian Flanagan
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