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Wieland, or The Transformation - together with Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

Wieland, or The Transformation - together with Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

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Wieland, or The Transformation - together with Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist: (a Harvest/HBJ Book)

by Brown, Charles Brockden; intro by Fred Lewis Pattee

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0156966808
ISBN 13
9780156966801
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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch (HBJ), c1958. Reprint. Trade paperback in glossy black illus wraps.. Good with occasional readers marks.. First published in 1798, a Gothic tale with American setting, by the first American writer of stature. With critical intro. Solid reading copy.

5-1/4 x 8, 351 pp.

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
edburynbooks US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
39487
Title
Wieland, or The Transformation - together with Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
Author
Brown, Charles Brockden; intro by Fred Lewis Pattee
Format/Binding
Trade paperback in glossy black illus wraps.
Book Condition
Used - Good with occasional readers marks.
Quantity Available
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Edition
Reprint
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0156966808
ISBN 13
9780156966801
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch (HBJ)
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
c1958

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