Cover of Letters from an American farmer

Letters from an American farmer

by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

1784 fre

Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the American, this new man?," as a new nation took shape before the eyes of the world. Addressing some of American literature's most pressing concerns and ide…

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