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The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
by John Adams and by Abigail Adams

Frank Shuffleton - Editor/introduction/note(s)

An intimate portrait of a colonial family and an important historical record of the beginnings of American government

The Letters of John and Abigail Adams provide an insightful record of American life before, during, and after the Revolution; they also reveal the intellectually and emotionally fulfilling relationship between John and Abigail that lasted fifty-four years and withstood historical upheavals, long periods apart, and personal tragedies. Covering key moments in American history—the Continental Congress, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, and John Adams' diplomatic missions to Europe—the letters reveal the concerns of a couple living during a period of explosive change—from smallpox and British warships to raising children, paying taxes, the state of women, and the emerging concepts of American democracy.

First time in Penguin Classics
Book: Paperback | 0.51 x 0.78in | 464 pages | ISBN 0142437115 | Dec 2003 | Penguin Classic $15.00
The Portable John Adams
by John Adams

Edited by John Patrick Diggins

Publisher Comments:
In addition to being an uncompromising defender of liberty, esteemed diplomat, and successor to George Washington, John Adams was a passionate and prolific writer. Adams biographer John Patrick Diggins gathers an impressive variety of his works in this compact, original volume, including parts of his diary and autobiography, and selections from his rich correspondence with his wife, Abigail, Thomas Jefferson, and others. The Portable John Adams also features his most important political works: "A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law," "Thoughts on Government," "A Defense of Constitutions," "Novanglus," and "Discourses on Davila." There is no finer introduction to the protean genius of this seminal American philosopher.

Due/Published July 2004, 640 pages, paper
ISBN 0142437786
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 0142437786 July 2004 Pages: 640

The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

Olaudah Equiano

Revised Edition Vincent Carretta - Editor/introduction/note(s)

A revised and expanded edition of the classic account of the slave trade by a native African, former slave, and loyal British subject

Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta

An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of ten, his service as the slave of an officer in the British Navy, his ten years of labor on slave ships until he was able to purchase his freedom in 1766, and his life afterward as a leading and respected figure in the antislavery movement in England. A spirited autobiography, a tale of spiritual quest and fulfillment, and a sophisticated treatise on religion, politics, and economics, The Interesting Narrative is a work of enduring literary and historical value.

Introduction
Vincent Carretta
A Note on the Text
Acknowledgments
A Note on Money
Suggestions for Further Reading
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself
Explanatory and Textual Notes
Appendix A: The Frontispieces and Title Pages of the First London (1789) and New York (1791) Editions
Appendix B: A Note on the Illustrations
Appendix C: List of Subscribers to the First Edition
Appendix D: List of Subscribers to the New York Edition
Appendix E: Correspondence of Gustavus Vassa, or Olaudah Equiano, Not Published in The Interesting Narrative
Appendix F: The Will and Codicil of Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano)
 $11.00
Book: Paperback | 7.67 x 7.79in | 400 pages | ISBN 0142437166 | May 2003 | Penguin Classic
Women's Early American Historical Narratives
 Sharon M. Harris

A unique, wide-ranging look at influential historical writing by early American women $15.00

Book: Paperback | 5.23 x 5.15in | 368 pages | ISBN 0142437107 | Jun 2003 | Penguin Classic
Alan Taylor

AMERICAN COLONIES: Penguin History of the United States, Volume One

In American Colonies award-winning historian Alan Taylor challenges the traditional Anglocentric focus of colonial history by exploring the multitude of cultural influences out of which "America" ultimately emerged. From the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait fifteen thousand years ago and the European expeditions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the nineteenth-century exploration and occupation of the Hawaiian Islands, Taylor traces the complex ecological, ethnic, and economic history and colonization of the New World from coast to coast, from the Canadian north to the Pacific rim.

Examining the repeatedly overlooked influence of the continent's natives upon the colonists and the resulting mutual dependence of the two, Taylor presents a unique and revelatory view of colonial North America. European colonists, African slaves, and native peoples met one another and interacted at a pace and intensity unparalleled in global
history. The effects of this staggering confluence of cultural, ecological, military, diplomatic, and economic interests are still being felt in America today. This fascinating and involving history of the origins of the United States will provoke and appeal to all readers of American history.

Viking Adult | ISBN 0670872822 | $34.95 | 304 pages | Published Nov 12 2001
Hardback

Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 544 pages | ISBN
0142002100 | 30 Jul 2002 | Penguin $16.00

James Martin

NARRATIVE OF SOME ADVENTURES, DANGERS AND SUFFERINGS OF A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER

Thomas Fleming: Introduction

The Declaration of Independence is barely a year old—and a motley band of farmers and city folk, beggars and gentlemen,
make up the Army of a newborn country. James Martin, once an eighteen-year-old private in the Continental Army of the
Revolutionary War, here narrates his true adventures as one of them. With neither horses nor uniforms, little food and less
lodging, Martin and his fellows feed off the taste of freedom and warm themselves with only the prospect of independence and the
shirts on their backs. Their growling stomachs only sometimes quieted by stale bread and salted horsemeat, Martin and his
comrades traverse the mid-Atlantic colonies, from Connecticut over to Pennsylvania and back down through Delaware. Forging most of
the path only by foot, these men leave tracks of blood with which the British trace them.

Although his story is over two hundred years old, Martin’s experience mirrors that of every soldier—and gives a rare glimpse of the earthy beginnings of a nation’s history in a compelling memoir of hardship and war.
Signet Classic | ISBN 0451528115 | $6.95 | 272 pages | Published Sep 01 2001 Paperback

The AUTOBIOGRAPHY and OTHER WRITINGS

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Edited by L. Jesse Lemisch, New Afterword by Carla Mulford

One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance Man: writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat and politician. In his long life of eighty-four years, he offered advice on attaining wealth, organized public institutions, contributed to the birth of a nation, and negotiated with foreign powers to ensure its survival.

Through the words of the elder statesman himself, The Autobiography and Other Writings presents a remarkable insight into the man and his accomplishments and additional writings from Benjamin Franklin’s wife and son provide a more intimate portrait of the husband and father who found himself a legend in his own time.

Signet | ISBN 0451528107 | $4.95 | 352 pages | Published Sep 01 2001 Paperback

PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE

by Alan Axelrod and Harry Oster

Paperback - 544 pages (November 27, 2001)
Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 0141002409

AGAINST SLAVERY: An Abolitionst Reader

Edited with an Introduction by Mason Lowance
384pp.
0-14-043758-4
$13.95

John Tanner

The Falcon; A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner

February 2000
Thomas Nickerson

The Loss: the Ship Essex Sunk by a Whale

JUNE 2000. Penguin Classics

Richard Henry Dana

TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST

Edited with Intro & Notes by John Seelye

Revised Signet Classic edition with new intro by John Seelye for April 2000.

September 9 , 2004