American Places
Author: Stegner, Wallace
ISBN: 9780143039747
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 25 Jul 2006
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A book about America by one of the greatest writers of the American West/b>br>br>"This book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how the American people and the American land have interacted, how they have shaped one another; what patterns of life, with what chances of continuity, have arisen out of the confrontations between an unformed society and a virgin continent. Perhaps it is less a book about the American land than some ruminationsabout the making of America. . . . We are the unfinished product of a long becoming." br>-from i>American Placesbr>/i>br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.i>br>/i>
ISBN: 9780143039747
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 25 Jul 2006
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A book about America by one of the greatest writers of the American West/b>br>br>"This book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how the American people and the American land have interacted, how they have shaped one another; what patterns of life, with what chances of continuity, have arisen out of the confrontations between an unformed society and a virgin continent. Perhaps it is less a book about the American land than some ruminationsabout the making of America. . . . We are the unfinished product of a long becoming." br>-from i>American Placesbr>/i>br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.i>br>/i>
