Wieland, And, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
By (Author) Charles Brockden Brown
Sterling Juvenile
Barnes & Noble Books
1st January 2008
United States
Hardback
288
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 combustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism. Also i