Classic American Autobiographies

ISBN 10: 0451529154 / ISBN 13: 9780451529152

Editore: Signet November 2003, 2003

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• Titolo: Classic American Autobiographies
• Editore: Signet November 2003
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0451529154
• ISBN 13: 9780451529152
• Rilegatura: Trade Paperback
• Condizione: Used Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Biography & Autobiography

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Riassunto

The true diversity of the American experience comes to life in this superlative collection.

A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682), perhaps the first American bestseller, recounts this thirty-nine-year-old woman’s harrowing months as the captive of Narragansett Indians.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771–1789), the most famous of all American autobiographies, gives a lively portrait of a chandler’s son who became a scientist, inventor, educator, diplomat, humorist—and a Founding Father of this land.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), the gripping slave narrative that helped change the course of American history, reveals the true nature of the black experience in slavery.

Old Times on the Mississippi (1875), Mark Twain’s unforgettable account of a riverboat pilot’s life, established his signature style and shows us the metamorphosis of a man into a writer.

Four Autobiographical Narratives (1900–1902), published in the Atlantic Monthly by Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird), also known as Gertrude Bonnin, provide us with a voice too seldom heard: a Native American woman fighting for her culture in the white man’s world.

Edited and with an Introduction by William L. Andrews and a New Afterword

Informazioni sull?autore

William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of To Tell a Free Story and editor or coeditor of more than thirty books on African American literature.
^William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author ofTo Tell a Free Story and editor or coeditor of more than thirty books on African American literature.