Captivity Narrative of Hannah Duston

Captivity Narrative of Hannah DustonIndian captivity narratives were popular reading in this country before the vanishing of the frontier, and they are one of the earliest forms of American literature. The brief and bloody chronicle of Hannah Duston from 1697 may be the most enduring. It was told and retold for over a hundred and fifty years by authors of literary distinction and continues to trouble us with its moral quandary. This project was conceived and editorially developed at

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It assembles together for the first time the accounts of the murder of her Indian captors by the white colonist Hannah Duston

found her voice while translating Brillat-Savarin in 1948

as well as in translations

The story of the Prince of Salina is based on the life of Lampedusa’s grandfather

collectors of Arion Press and other fine presses

has written of Carl Martin: "He is possessed of poetic genius

Orwell’s ideas about how the socialist revolution was betrayed by the Communists are the basis for his fable Animal Farm

who reinvents dirigibles

had an introduction by Allen Ginsberg and a prefatory letter by William Carlos Williams

a solution was coincidentally announced a few months after the opening of Arcadia

readers eager to see the interplay of Pushkin’s sense and his words