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The Third Person Rural/Adventures Of Jonathon Corncob
The Third Person Rural/Adventures Of Jonathon Corncob Author:Noel Perrin THIRD PERSON RURAL is Noel Perrin's third set of essays on Vermont farm life. An English professor at Dartmouth College, Perrin refers to his occasional bouts in the country as "a working-class farmer who mows fields on contract to summer people, sells wood and stacks it for them." THE ADVENTURES OF JONATHAN CORNCOB, author unknown, is a rare... more » satire of the American Revolution. Discovered and introduced by Noel Perrin, this book was originally published in London in 1787 (it has never before been published in America), and is one of very few Revolutionary War novels to have survived. Bawdy, chauvinistic, anti-heroic and funny, JONATHAN CORNCOB was the black humor of the 18th century.« less