Wieland; or, The Transformation
by Charles Brockden Brown
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385031009
- ISBN 13
- 9780385031004
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Previous owner's name written inside front cover, along with the previous store's stamp. Interior pages are clean, firm and unmarked. The front cover shows early signs of separation along the lower spine, but is intact.
Synopsis
Wieland, named by his father after a German nickname for the devil, inherits both his father's estate and religious susceptibility. His idyllic rural life is disrupted when he falls prey to the ventriloquist Carwin, who convinces Wieland that a divine voice is commanding him to slaughter his family. He is tried for the murders of his wife and children, for which he expresses no remorse. He later escapes prison in an attempt to kill his sister Clara, who narrates the story. Clara and Carwin have an ambiguous relationship of attraction and repulsion.Brown's work was an important precursor to such Gothic masters as Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BX74-HCST-OO-1.96
- Title
- Wieland; or, The Transformation
- Author
- Charles Brockden Brown
- Format/Binding
- Glued binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385031009
- ISBN 13
- 9780385031004
- Publisher
- Anchor Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1973
- Pages
- 276
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Literature;
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