A terrifying account of the fallibility of the human mind and, by extension, of democracy itself, Wieland brilliantly reflects the psychological, social, and political concerns of the early American republic. In the fragmentary...

One of the first American Gothic novels, Edgar Huntly (1787) mirrors the social and political temperaments of the postrevolutionary United States. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature...

Edgar Huntly; Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (Dodo Press) von Brown, Charles Brockden

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...

"Wieland" von Charles Brockden Brown, veröffentlicht im Jahr 1798, ist ein frühes Werk der amerikanischen Gothic-Literatur. Der Roman erzählt die düstere und unheimliche Geschichte von Theodore Wieland und seiner Familie, die in einer...

Set during the epic Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793, Charles Brockden Brown's classic gothic novel Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 connects the outbreak with the upheavals of the revolutionary era and the murderous...