Early American Writing

by Giles Gunn (Editor)

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.

Genres: History, Classics, Read For School, American

672 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1994

Reviews

[Paige Hettinger]

did not read all of this, only selections for class, but sure did read a lot and enough to add it

[Andrea Renfrow]

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this while I taught my kiddo Early American history this year. It's always nice to have more grown up material to satiate my thirst for knowledge while she and I read the children's biographies together. I'm adding this to her required reading for highschool.

[Karen Jorgensen]

Took a while, but I learned a thing or two! 😉

[Rachel Danielle]

It was pretty neat to see the American Ideals develop from their earliest beginnings. A great selection, I think, of early American works- Captivity Stories, Slave Narratives, Religious Autobiographies, Letters, Sermons, Presidential Addresses, and so on.

[Gary McDowell]

I love this book. Such a rich history.