Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America - (Penguin American Library) by J Hecor St John de Crèvecoeur (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>America's physical and cultural landscape is captured in these two classics of American history. <i>Letters </i>provides an invaluable view of the pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary eras; <i>Sketches</i> details in vivid prose the physical setting in which American settlers created their history. <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>J. Hecor St. John de Crèvecoeur</b> was born in France in 1735 and emigrated to the English colony of New York after the French and Indian War. Suspected by his neighbors of being a monarchy sympathizer during the American Revolution, Crevecoeur was unjustly persecuted, imprisoned, and forced to flee the colonies. His well-received 1781 publication<i> Letters from an American Farmer</i> led him to be awarded a consulship to the newly formed American republic, where he served as a political and cultural liaison between France and the US, helped to organize and promote trade across the Atlantic, and corresponded with the likes of Franklin, Jefferson, and Madison. He died in France in 1813. <p/><b>Albert E. Stone</b> is a professor of English and chairman of the American Studies program at the University of Iowa. He is the author of <i>The Innocent Eye: Childhood in Mark Twain's Imagination</i> and the editor of<i> The American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical Essays</i>, as well as <i>Twentieth-Century Interpretations of</i> <i>The Ambassadors.</i>
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