Wieland
or, The Transformation: An American Tale and Other Stories
$35.21
- Paperback
412 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2002
Summary
Called a “remarkable story” by John Greenleaf Whittier and described by John Keats as “very powerful,” Wieland, Charles Brockden Brown’s disturbing 1798 tale of terror, is a masterpiece involving spontaneous combustion, disembodied voices, religious mania, and a gruesome murder based on a real-life incident.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes Wieland’s fragmentary sequel, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, as well as several other important but hard-to-find…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375759031 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375759034 |
| Author: | Charles Brockden Brown, Caleb Crain |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 412 |
| Edition: | 2002nd |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2002 |
| Weight: | 482g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 141mm x 217mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“Brown was a man of genius.”- William Hazlitt
“Brown was a man of genius.”—William Hazlitt
Charles Brockden Brown
Caleb Crain is the author of American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. He lives in Brooklyn.
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