American Literature: An Historical Sketch (1882)

S$112.00

American Literature: An Historical Sketch (1882)

S$112.00

Title: American Literature: An Historical Sketch, 1620 – 1880
Author: John Nichol
Publisher: Adam & Charles Black, 1882
Condition: Hardcover, full leather with school crest on cover. Previous owner’s bookplate on inner board. Wear to edges of boards, hinges cracked. Tightly bound, very nice.

An excellent, well-written and eminently readable survey of American literature from the colonial and settlement period to its greatest poets, its political giants and writers of the constitution, its orators, its late 19th-century humorists, satirists, transcendentalists, romanticists, and critics.