Charles Brockden Brown

Books by Charles Brockden Brown

Wieland; or, the Transformation

An American Tale

One of the earliest major American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1760s. Based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the novel employs Gothic devices and sensational elements such as spontaneous combus...
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