Rosanna of The Amish The Restored Text Author:Joseph Warren Yoder Rosanna of the Amish, Joseph W. Yoder's thrilling narrative of an Irish Catholic baby girl brought up by an Amish woman, represents the beginnings of Mennonite literature in America. In this new edition, the original 1940 text is restored, and the classic book is placed in its cultural and historical context with a critical introduction by Julia... more » Spicher Kasdorf.
Kasdorf draws on new research to cast the original text as an artifact of religious and ethnic literature. Students of American and Mennonite literature will be pleased to find the original Pennsylvania German colloquial language of earlier editions restored. Yoder s honest, sympathetic, straightforward account of the religious, social, and economic customs of the Amish can now be read as the author intended.« less