Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-century America
Penguin Publishing Group · Paperback · December 17, 1981
America’s physical and cultural landscape is captured in these two classics of American history.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary America
- Themes
- American history, Eighteenth-century America, American settlement
- Genres
- Revolutionary America (1775-1800), Letters & Correspondence, Colonial America (to 1775)
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America’s physical and cultural landscape is captured in these two classics of American history. Letters provides an invaluable view of the pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary eras; Sketches details in vivid prose the physical setting in which American settlers created their history. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
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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.
Who it’s for
- Readers interested in pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary America
- Readers interested in America’s physical and cultural landscape
Where it sits
| Revolutionary America (1775-1800) | 74% |
|---|---|
| Colonial America (to 1775) | 59% |
| Letters & Correspondence | 50% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Colonial America (to 1775)
- Social History
- Letters & Correspondence
- Authors
- J. Hecor St. John de Crèvecoeur
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- December 17, 1981
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- American history · Eighteenth-century America · American settlement
- Reading lane
- Colonial America (to 1775)