Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays

by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer was published in London in 1782, just as the idea of an "American" was becoming a reality. Those epistolary essays introduced the European public to America's landscape and customs and have since served as the iconic description of a then-new people. Dennis D. Moore's convenient, up-to-date reader's edition situates those twelve pieces from the 1782 Letters in the context of thirteen other essays representative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674051815
• ISBN13: 9780674051812
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"