Classic American autobiographies
By: edited and with an introduction by William L. Andrews and with a new afterword by Paul John Eakin
Contributors: Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910; Zitkala-S̈a, 1876-1938; Zitkala-S̈a, 1876-1938; Zitkala-S̈a, 1876-1938; Zitkala-S̈a, 1876-1938
Series: Signet classics; Signet classics
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780451471444
Subjects: Autobiographies
Description: A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682), perhaps the first American bestseller, recounts this thirty-nine-year-old woman's harrowing months as the captive of Narragansett Indians. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771-1789), the most famous of all American autobiographies, gives a lively portrait of a chandler's son who became a scientist, inventor, educator, diplomat, humorist--and a Founding Father of this land. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), the gripping slave narrative that helped change the course of American history, reveals the true nature of the black experience in slavery. Old Times on the Mississippi (1875), Mark Twain's unforgettable account of a riverboat pilot's life, established his signature style and shows us the metamorphosis of a man into a writer. Four Autobiographical Narratives (1900-1902), published in the Atlantic Monthly by Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird), also known as Gertrude Bonnin, provide us with a voice too seldom heard: a Native American woman fighting for her culture in the white man's world.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Mentor, ©1992.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-472).

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Table of contents: title: A true history of captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Robinson (1682) / Mary Rowlandson; title: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771-1789) / Benjamin Franklin; title: Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (1845) / Frederick Douglass; title: Old times on the Mississippi (1875) / Mark Twain; title: Four autobiographical narratives (1900-1902) / Zitkala-Sa.