Does anyone have any suggestions here?

 

--sunday

GOING TO BE HARD FINDING AN AMERICAN BOOK THAT ISN'T FICTON EH! SORRY GUYS, I JUST COULDN'T LET THAT ONE BYE. I WOULD SUGGEST ASKING THE STAFF AT THE LOCAL LIBRARY.

        

                                                     ......PBA

Ginger, if you are Canadian then you are in trouble as there are only two in the country.  One is in the shop having the 'pop-ups' repaired and Repete won't give up the other until he's colored all the pictures.

If I understand you correctly you are looking for American novels written before the 1860s ? If so, then how about the works of Nathanial Hawthorne. Try The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of Seven Gables (1851) and Tanglewood Tales (1853).

Sorry, I've re-read your post and you're after non-fiction. My brain hurts. Read them anyway.

I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that the book does NOT have to be American. My teacher actually prefers something from one of the 'classical' civilizations that we are/will be reading about. I do thank you for all your ideas, though.

 

Sorry,

Emma

ginger love, try the books of Dumas (French).  Three Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo etc.  I believe they are pre 1860.  Mark GB's suggestion of the Hawthorne books is excellent,  Leather Stocking Tales by James Fennimore Cooper also.  If you want a truely classical civilization, and it must be pre 1860, try the Legend of Genji, written during the Tokugawa shogunate, by onr of the court Ladies.  And there is always the Illiad, Oddessy, and the Aeneid.

NON-FICTON LEW. THE THREE MUSKETEERS???

AS I SAID, VERY HARD TO FIND A BOOK IN AMERICA PRE-CIVIL WAR THAT ISN'T FICTON. ODD SOMEONE HASN'T TRIED THROWING IN THE BIBLE HERE. WASN'T IT WRITTEN IN THE SOUTH STATES SOME WHERE?

                                                                 

                                                                       .......PBA

 

HOW ABOUT IF YOU COULD FIND SOMEONES DIARY OR JOURNALS.

WOULD THIS COUNT AS NON-FICTON. MAYBE ONE OF THE FAMOUS NAVIGATORS OR EXPLORERS FOR EXAMPLE. JUST A THOUGHT GINGER.

                                                                            ..........PBA

Shame on you guys for not helping this young lady.  Ginger, a few suggestions I have for you would be either Common Sense or Rights of Man, both by Thomas Paine, or perhaps the Journals of Meriwether Lewis, the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, or the Life of Patrick Henry by A. G. Arnold.

Ginger

By far the best suggestion so far is to go to your aschool librarian or "media center specialist"!  Might I also suggest in your spare time you consider the works of John Milton, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and the works of a scholar named Josephus who describes life in Ancient Rome.

Just now I am reading a book by John Grisham called the Painted House, but that is too current to do you any good.  Do you have any favorite authors?

I'm sure it's way too late now...(but this also for those who may think everything in America is fiction?????)

 

American:  but the diaries of Lewis and Clark, the letters between John and Abigail Adams, Thomas Paine (Common Sense),  John Smith (History of New England), William Bradford (On Plymouth Plantation), the journals of John Winthrop, Mary Rowlandson (A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowland), Roger Williams (letters to the town of Providence), Benjamin Franklin (The autobiography, The Way to Ealth, Exporting Felons to the Colony, Letters to Ezra Stiles), and William Bartram (travels),

 

Other than American: anything by Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Thomas More, St. Jerome, Sir Walter Raleigh (be sure to read the letter to his wife before his execution), the life of King Alfred (Asser has translated from Latin), also the hymns and sayings of the Honorable Bede (many translations)

 

Some good reading all around!!!!!!!