Letters from an American Farmer

by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer: Genre 1 key example

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Explanation and Analysis:

As the name suggests, Letters from an American Farmer is an epistolary novel, a novel in the form of letters (addressed, in this case, by James to his friend Mr. F. B. in England). The book begins with a note, however, from de Crèvecoeur himself:

To The
Abbé Raynal, F.R.S.

Behold, sir, an humble American planter, a simple cultivator of the earth, addressing you from the farther side of the Atlantic and presuming to fix your name at the head of his trifling lucubrations.