The Friendly Persuasion
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: September 1, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780156029094
First sentence: "NEAR the banks of the Muscatatuck where once the woods had stretched, dark row on row, and where the fox grapes and wild mint still flourished, Jess Birdwell, an Irish Quaker, built his white clapboard house."