Henry Adams

• Mar-2015
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• Apr-2009
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The Education of Henry Adams, written by America's greatest historian and heir to America's first political family, was greeted on its posthumous release as the...

• Nov-2008
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A large insurance company, Washington Granite, decides it will do anything to improve profits. They hire Cobalt, an ex-cop, to improve the claims picture. He hires other ex-cops and law enforcement types, creating an armed force that pursues people w...

• Dec-1999
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The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a sug...

An instant bestseller when first published in 1880, Democracy is the quintessential American political novel. At its heart is Madeleine Lee, a young widow who comes to Washington, D.C., to understand the workings of power. Pursued by Silas Ratcliffe,...

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams br...