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

by Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John de

• ISBN13: 9780140390063
• ISBN10: 0140390065
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1981-12-17
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

A French soldier depicts farm life in the American colonies and many of their problems

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(20)
Albert E. Stone
Suggestions for Further Reading	27	(2)
A Note on the Text	29	(6)
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER
Advertisements	35	(2)
To the Abbe Raynal, F.R.S.	37	(2)
Introduction	39	(12)
On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer	51	(15)
What Is an American?	66	(40)
Description of the Island of Nantucket, with the Manners, Customs, Policy, and Trade of the Inhabitants	106	(21)
Customary Education and Employment of the Inhabitants of Nantucket	127	(5)
Description of the Island of Martha's Vineyard and of the Whale Fishery	132	(12)
Manners and Customs at Nantucket	144	(11)
Peculiar Customs at Nantucket	155	(11)
Description of Charles Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene	166	(14)
On Snakes; And on the Humming-bird	180	(7)
From Mr. Iw--n Al--z, a Russian Gentleman, Describing the Visit He Paid at My Request to Mr. John Bertram, the Celebrated Pennsylvanian Botanist	187	(13)
Distresses of a Frontier Man	200	(31)
SKETCHES OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
A Snow-storm as It Affects the American Farmer	231	(10)
Ant-hill Town	241	(9)
Reflections on the Manners of the American	250	(14)
Thoughts of an American Farmer on Various Rural Subjects	264	(57)
Liberty of Worship	321	(16)
The English and the French Before the Revolution	337	(5)
The Man of Sorrows	342	(11)
On the Susquehanna; The Wyoming Massacre	353	(28)
History of Mrs. B.	381	(11)
The Frontier Woman	392	(5)
The American Belisarius	397	(17)
Landscapes	414	(67)
Index	481