Settle in for a cozy night of reading with this gothic classic from Charles Brockden Brown. The tale follows protagonist Arthur Mervyn through a hellishly difficult period in his life, marred by illness, tragedy, mistakes, and a thorny romantic entanglement. Will Mervyn emerge from this period with his faculties intact, or will he plunge further into the despair that surrounds him?
What would you do if everything you thought you knew about yourself turned out to be wrong? That's the premise at the center of Charles Brockden Brown's novel Edgar Huntly, which centers on a protagonist who is determined to solve a mysterious murder case -- only to find out that he himself may not be as innocent as he once supposed.
Regarded by many critics as one of the most important early American novelists, Charles Brockden Brown was a writer and thinker of international significance in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Jane Talbot unfolds as a series of letters between Henry Colden and the title character as they fall in love, travel the world, and resolve to marry despite the objections of family members.
Imagine being able to perfectly imitate the voice of any man, woman or child. That's the remarkable talent that the young Carwin discovers and cultivates in himself. For the most part, Carwin uses his skills for noble ends. Will he be tempted to talk his way into a life of crime? Read Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist to find out.
Get a first-hand look at life in the decades following the birth of American in the well-written period novel Ormond by Charles Brockden Brown, whom many scholars describe as one of the most important literary voices in early America. Spirited heroine Constance Dudley faces one tribulation after another as her family struggles to find its footing in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War.
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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