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iSBN 978-0-14-310677-7 $16.00 ($17.00 CAN)
Autobiography/Literature 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 368 pp. Rights: D05
b/w photos throughout Pub history: previous edition
978-0-14-018985-8 On sale: 6/26/2012
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n Centennial edition
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For the centennial of its first publication:
a new edition of a seminal work on the
American immigrant experience
The Promised Land
Mary Antin
Introduction and Notes by Werner Sollors
Weaving introspection with political commentary, biography
with history, The Promised Land, first published in 1912, brings to
life the transformation of an Eastern European Jewish immigrant
into an American citizen. Mary Antin recounts “the process of uprooting,
transportation, replanting, acclimatization, and development
that took place in [her] own soul” and reveals the impact of
a new culture and new standards of behavior on her family. A feeling
of division—between Russia and America, Jews and Gentiles,
Yiddish and English—ever-present in her narrative is balanced by
insights, amusing and serious, into ways to overcome it. In telling
the story of one person, The Promised Land illuminates the lives of
hundreds of thousands.
n Includes two additional works: “Malinke’s Atonement” and “The Lie”
n Updated suggestions for further reading
n Also available as an e-book
MARy Antin (1881–1949) published short stories and essays in
addition to her novels The Promised Land and They Who Knock at Our Gates.
weRneR solloRs is coeditor of A New Literary History of America,
which was named a Best Book of 2009 by Entertainment Weekly and Salon.
He teaches at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.