9780140189858-0140189858-The Promised Land (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

The Promised Land (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

ISBN-13: 9780140189858
ISBN-10: 0140189858
Edition: Reprint
Author: Mary Antin
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback 368 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780140189858
ISBN-10: 0140189858
Edition: Reprint
Author: Mary Antin
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback 368 pages

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The Promised Land (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) (ISBN-13: 9780140189858 and ISBN-10: 0140189858), written by authors Mary Antin, was published by Penguin Classics in 1997. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Promised Land (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.52.

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Interweaving introspection with political commentaries, biography with history, The Promised Land (1912) brings to life the transformation of an East European Jewish immigrant into an American citizen. Mary Antin recounts "the process of uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimitization, and development that took place in my own soul," and reveals the impact of a new culture and new standards of behavior on her family. A feeling of divisions—between Russia and America, Jews and Gentiles, Yiddish and English—ever-present in her narrative, is balanced by insights, amusing and serious, into ways to overcome them. In telling the story of one person, The Promised Land illuminates the lives of hundreds of thousands.

This Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition includes eighteen black-and-white photographs from the book's first edition and reprints for the first time Antin's essay "How I wrote The Promised Land."

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