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Wieland: Or, the Transformation: An American Tale and Other Stories

Charles Brockden Brown

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 Brockden Brown short stories, including "Thessalonica," "Walstein's School of History," and "Death of Cicero." This collection also reproduces the newspaper account of the murder that inspired Wieland.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Modern Library
  • Publish Date: Jun 11st, 2002
  • Pages: 412
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.60in - 0.92in - 1.08lb
  • EAN: 9780375759031
  • Categories: Horror - GeneralLiteraryClassics

About the Author

Caleb Crain is the author of American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. He lives in Brooklyn.

Praise for this book

"Brown was a man of genius."--William Hazlitt