Synopses & Reviews
Perry Miller's classic one-volume anthology of Puritan writings recreates the world of seventeenth-century New England through a judicious selection of tracts, journals, sermons, and other poetry by the major Puritan writers: William Bradford, Cotton Mather, John Winthrop, Thomas Hooker, Anne Bradstreet, Michael Wigglesworth, and Edward Taylor among them.
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"The best collection of American Puritan writings, selected by the foremost American intellectual historian of our century." Sacvan Bercovitch
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"The indispensible basic anthology." Edmund S. Morgan
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"The American Puritan movement is the essential starting point for all considerations of American culture and no book in print provides a better introduction to it than does this one." Larzer Ziff