Motion from a fixed point: third-person reference in The education of Henry Adams.
Henry Adams's autobiography The education of Henry Adams employs a consistent third-person narrative technique in which the author refers to himself by various epithets such as "the boy," "young man," "the private secretary," "the historian, "Henry Adams," or simply "Adams." His pronoun of choice is...
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