Early American WritingPenguin, 1.02.1994 г. - 672 страници 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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... told that the city was a nursery of vice and prodigality. He now saw that it was so. Every shop had wares to catch his eye: exquisite fabrics, delicate chinaware, silver buckles, looking glasses, and other imported luxuries that never ...
... told that the city was a nursery of vice and prodigality. He now saw that it was so. Every shop had wares to catch his eye: exquisite fabrics, delicate chinaware, silver buckles, looking glasses, and other imported luxuries that never ...
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... told him to go and make ready for them. This was the Great Buzzard, the father of all the buzzards we see now. He flew all over the earth, low down near the ground, and it was still soft. When he reached the Cherokee country, he was ...
... told him to go and make ready for them. This was the Great Buzzard, the father of all the buzzards we see now. He flew all over the earth, low down near the ground, and it was still soft. When he reached the Cherokee country, he was ...
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... told to watch and keep awake for seven nights, just as young men now fast and keep awake when they pray to their medicine. They tried to do this, and nearly all were awake through the first night, but the next night several dropped off ...
... told to watch and keep awake for seven nights, just as young men now fast and keep awake when they pray to their medicine. They tried to do this, and nearly all were awake through the first night, but the next night several dropped off ...
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... told Man to walk away a few steps, and in astonishment exclaimed again: “Whence did you come? I have never seen anything like you before.” To this Man replied: “I came from the peapod.” And he pointed to the plant from which he came ...
... told Man to walk away a few steps, and in astonishment exclaimed again: “Whence did you come? I have never seen anything like you before.” To this Man replied: “I came from the peapod.” And he pointed to the plant from which he came ...
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... told him to close his eyes. As soon as Man's eyes were closed Raven drew down his mask and waved his wings four times over the images, when they became endowed with life and bounded away as fullgrown mountain sheep. Raven then raised ...
... told him to close his eyes. As soon as Man's eyes were closed Raven drew down his mask and waved his wings four times over the images, when they became endowed with life and bounded away as fullgrown mountain sheep. Raven then raised ...
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Michel de Montaigne 15331592 | |
Michael Drayton 15631631 | |
Samuel de Champlain 15671635 | |
John Smith 15801631 | |
William Bradford 15901657 | |
Fray Carlos José Delgado 1677c 1750 | |
Benjamin Franklin 17061790 | |
Elizabeth Ashbridge 17131755 | |
John Woolman 17201772 | |
Chief Logan | |
Chief Pachgantschilias | |
Thomas Jefferson 17341826 | |
Thomas Paine 17371809 | |
Thomas Morton 1579?1647 | |
Ann Hutchinson 15911643 | |
Anne Bradstreet 1612?1672 | |
Roger Williams 16131683 | |
Michael Wigglesworth 16311705 | |
Edward Taylor 1644?1729 | |
Samuel Sewall 16521730 | |
Sarah Kemble Knight 16661727 | |
Robert Beverley c 16731722 | |
Abigail Adams 17441818 | |
Hugh Henry Brackenridge 17481816 | |
The Federalist Papers 17871788 | |
Timothy Dwight 17521817 | |
Joel Barlow 17541812 | |
Royall Tyler 17571826 | |
Susanna Haswell Rowson 1762?1824 | |
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