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A Man's Life
Arthur Henry Adams (1872-1936) was a journalist and author. Born in Lawrence, New Zealand, he was educated at the University of Otago, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He worked as a journalist in Wellington, where he began contributing poetry to The Bulletin, then moved to Sydney in 1898, and took up a position as literary secretary to J. C. Williamson. In 1900 he travelled to China to cover the Boxer Rebellion as a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald and several New Zealand papers. He would later return to New Zealand before moving to London in 1902, where he published several works including London Streets (1906). He returned to Australia in 1906 where he became editor of the Bulletin's Red Page until 1909. In addition to his poetry, Adams wrote both plays and novels. His works include: Maoriland, and Other Verses (1899), Tussock Land (1904), The New Chum (1909), Galahad Jones (1910), The Collected Verses of Arthur H. Adams (1913), Mrs. Pretty and the Premier (1914), Double Bed Dialogues (1915), Australian Nursery Rimes (as editor) (1917), The Australians (1920) and A Man's Life (1929).
A Man's Life (Esprios Classics)
Arthur Henry Adams (6 June 1872 - 4 March 1936) was a journalist and author. He was born in Lawrence, New Zealand, and educated at the University of Otago, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and began studying law. He then abandoned law to become a journalist in Wellington, where he began contributing poetry to The Bulletin, a Sydney periodical. He moved to Sydney in 1898, and took up a position as private secretary and literary advisor. In 1900 Adams travelled to China to cover the Boxer Rebellion as a journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald and several New Zealand papers. He would later return to New Zealand before moving to London in 1902.
The Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams is an autobiography that records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th-century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial publication of the book had to await its author's 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. The Modern Library placed it first in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The Education of Henry Adams is much more a record of Adams's introspec...
