Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America

Download or read book Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America written by J. Hecor St. John de Crèvecoeur and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1981-12-17 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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.