William Bradford's Books
Subtitle: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780801870743
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1600 to c 1700; History - U.S.; Biography; English; History: American; USA; History of Plymouth Plantation; American - General; United States - Colonial Period; Bradford, William; Criticism and interpretation; History / United States / General; 1590-1657; 1590-1657.; Bradford, William,; History; Massachusetts; Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
First sentence: OF PLIMMOTH PLANTATION, the "scribled writings" that William Bradford reports that he began to set down in 1630 and "peeced up at times of leasure" for the next twenty years, remained in manuscript for so long and survived so many remarkable vicissitudes that the book's appearance in print for the first time, in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society for 1856, seems only a little less miraculous than the survival of the tiny community whose story Bradford set out to tell.