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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date February 5, 2015
Pages 282
Binding Paperback
Edition Large print
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781507856796
ISBN-10 1507856792
Dimensions 0.64 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price $15.00
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Promised Land is the autobiography of Mary Antin. It tells the story of her early life in what is now Belarus and her immigration to the United States in 1894. The book focuses on her attempts to assimilate into the culture of the United States. A very personal and very interesting look into the life of a young child moving away from her homeland. Includes several black and white photos. Excerpt “A generation is sometimes a more satisfactory unit for the study of humanity than a lifetime; and spiritual generations are as easy to demark as physical ones. Now I am the spiritual offspring of the marriage within my conscious experience of the Past and the Present. My second birth was no less a birth because there was no distinct incarnation. Surely it has happened before that one body served more than one spiritual organization. Nor am I disowning my father and mother of the flesh, for they were also partners in the generation of my second self; copartners with my entire line of ancestors. They gave me body, so that I have eyes like my father’s and hair like my mother’s. The spirit also they gave me, so that I reason like my father and endure like my mother. But did they set me down in a sheltered garden, where the sun should warm me, and no winter should hurt, while they fed me from their hands? No; they early let me run in the fields – perhaps because I would not be held – and eat of the wild fruits and drink of the dew. Did they teach me from books, and tell me what to believe? I soon chose my own books, and built me a world of my own.”

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Paperback
Book cover for 9780486497990 Book cover for 9781420940367 Book cover for 9781492249306 Book cover for 9781507856796 Book cover for 9781514879474
 
from Createspace Independent Pub (July 8, 2015)
9781514879474 | details & prices | 276 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.63 in. | List price $10.40
About: The Promised Land (1912) edited here with illustrations from photographs, is the autobiography of Mary Antin, was an American author and immigration rights activist.
from Createspace Independent Pub (May 8, 2015)
9781512037692 | details & prices | 120 pages | 8.50 × 11.00 × 0.28 in. | List price $7.49
from Createspace Independent Pub (April 26, 2015)
9781507688342 | details & prices | 228 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.52 in. | List price $18.99
The price comparison is for this edition
Large print edition from Createspace Independent Pub (February 5, 2015)
9781507856796 | details & prices | 282 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.64 in. | List price $15.00
About: The Promised Land is the autobiography of Mary Antin.
from Createspace Independent Pub (August 26, 2013)
9781492249306 | details & prices | 208 pages | 8.50 × 11.00 × 0.47 in. | List price $10.45
Reprint edition from Dover Pubns (December 19, 2012)
9780486497990 | details & prices | 261 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $9.95
from Digireads.Com (January 31, 2011)
9781420940367 | details & prices | 174 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.58 lbs | List price $8.99

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