Early American Writing (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140390871 ISBN 13: 9780140390872

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1994

Synopsis

Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature―including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Synopsis

Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, this book explores American myths of origin. The book includes American legends explaining the origins of the world, narratives of discovery by Columbus and Vespucci, and visions of a new paradise sketched by naturalists and other writers. Early settlers chronicle the establishment of a new society, and other selections offer insights into the foundation of the republic and reflect often contradictory views of both the problems and promise of the new nation.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140390871
• ISBN 13: 9780140390872
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672
• Editor: Gunn Giles