Wieland, or The Transformation - together with Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist: (a Harvest/HBJ Book)
by Brown, Charles Brockden; intro by Fred Lewis Pattee
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good with occasional readers marks.
- ISBN 10
- 0156966808
- ISBN 13
- 9780156966801
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Nevada City, California, United States
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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)
- 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
- 1
- 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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