id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6452 Letters from an American Farmer - Wikipedia .html text/html 2976 346 65 Letters from an American Farmer Title page of the second edition. The text incorporates a broad range of genres, ranging from documentary on local agricultural practices to sociological observations of the places visited and their inhabitants;[16] Norman Grabo describes it as "an example of the American tradition of book-as-anthology and authorship-as-editing".[14] Whereas early readings of the text tended to consider it "as a straightforward natural and social history of young America",[17] critics now see it as combining elements of fiction and non-fiction in what Thomas Philbrick has termed a "complex artistry".[18] In addition to its usual classification as a form of epistolary, philosophical travel narrative—comparable to Montesquieu's Persian Letters[2]—the text has been considered as a novel,[19] and as a romance.[18][20] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6452.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6452.txt