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Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I
Author: Various
Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge
Francis W. Halsey
Release Date: May 1, 2009 [EBook #28653]
Language: English
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[Illustration: EMERSON, IRVING, COOPER, HAWTHORNE]
THE BEST
of the
WORLD'S CLASSICS
RESTRICTED TO PROSE
HENRY CABOT LODGE
Editor-in-Chief
FRANCIS W. HALSEY
Associate Editor
With an Introduction, Biographical and
Explanatory Notes, etc.
IN TEN VOLUMES
Vol. IX
AMERICA--I
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
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The Best of the World's Classics
VOL. IX
AMERICA--I
1579-1891
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CONTENTS
VOL. IX--AMERICA--I
_Page_
JOHN SMITH--(Born in 1579, died in 1631.)
His Story of Pocahontas.
(From the "General History of Virginia") 3
WILLIAM BRADFORD--(Born in 1590, died in 1657.)
The Pilgrims Land and Meet the Indians.
(From the "History of Plymouth") 11
SAMUEL SEWALL--(Born in 1652, died in 1730.)
How He Courted Madam Winthrop.
(From his "Diary")
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