Wieland: Or, the Transformation: An American Tale and Other Stories

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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes Wieland's fragmentary sequel, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, as well as several other important but hard-to-find Brockden Brown short stories, including "Thessalonica," "Walstein's School of History," and "Death of Cicero." This collection also reproduces the newspaper account of the murder that inspired Wieland.

Author: Charles Brockden Brown
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 06/11/2002
Pages: 412
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780375759031

About the Author
Caleb Crain is the author of American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. He lives in Brooklyn.