Wieland or, The Transformation: An American Tale
Anchor, November 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Anchor, November 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Modern Library, June 2002. Trade Paperback. 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..... More
Penguin USA, October 1998. Hardcover. Haunted, dreamlike scenes define the fictional world of Charles Brockden Brown, America's first professional novelist. Published in the final years of the 18th century, Brown's startlingly prophetic novels are a virtual resume of themes that would constantly recur in American literature: madness and murder, suicide..... More