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The Promised Land (Penguin Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Antin
Creator: Werner Sollors
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 212080
Media: Paperback
Pages: 368
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0140189858
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.91092
EAN: 9780140189858
ASIN: 0140189858
Publication Date: February 1, 1997
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Condition: Cover shows wear. A few scuffs. Yellowed covers and pages. Shows wear. Orders shipped within 1 business day.
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Product Description
Interweaving autobiography with history, introspection and political commentary, Mary Antin recounts the process of "uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimatization, and development that took place in my own soul", and reveals the impact of a new culture on her family.
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 A fabulous find January 11, 2000
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
It is hard to believe I never was required to read this wonderful book, and I am thankful to have discovered it as a result of reading a children's book based on it (by Rosemary Wells, also highly recommended) to my children. The circumstances of its writing are remarkable; the images luminous and the prose unbelievably beautiful for any author, especially for a recent immigrant. But it is the insight into her personality, culture and psyche which appeal to me the most. You will also like the personalities you meet through her. This book should be read by anyone who loves the English language, loves America, or just loves a window into the soul of another.
 Good, but conceited March 9, 2001
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
This was a very interesting account of an immigrant girl's life in America. The first half of the book is about her life in Russia and it is helpful in explaining what type of world the author came from and why America was such a new world to her. I found the factual accounts in this book fascinating but when Ms. Antin started spouting her theories about life and about herself (which she does quite a bit), she appeared to me to be tiresome and conceited. I would recommend this book because it does give an interesting perspective on the life of an immigrant, although it can get very bogged down in places.
Interesting Look at Immigrant Experience September 12, 2003
Ricky Hunter (New York City, NY United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Mary Antin's experiences presumably match the experiences of many immigrants coming to America in the heady days just before the dawn of the twentienth century. The Promised Land, for that reason, holds a high degree of historical interest for anyone with a fascination for this period and the process of an immigrant's journey from their mother country to their new home. I wish I could recommend it more highly but it is written in such drippingly purple tones that at times it comes close to being cringe worthy. The author did possess a high degree of self awareness but an often low degree of awareness of others that makes her endlessly new revelations about herself seem more and more self-centred. This book is of its time with its concern for the early progessive movements' ideas about cleanliness and the prose stylings from the end of the nineteenth century. It can a little hard going but is worth the effort for a look at one woman's journey to an America that once followed the words written on the Statue of Liberty.
Interesting but not the greatest October 26, 2004
Shalom Freedman (Jerusalem,Israel)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I remember reading this work years ago in connection with the study I was then making of American Jewish Literature. My impression was much that of another Amazon reader. It is at times a vivid account of a new immigrant experience, but the tale is not told with the deepest intensity of feeling. It may be unfair but the comparison which comes to mind is with Henry Roth's "Call it Sleep" which is a fictional work but one which goes deep into the soul and consciousness. This work is a more externally directed narrative, and has its virtue in giving a picture of one person's move to the New World.
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