Wieland Paperback by Charles Brockden Brown Introduction and Notes by Caleb Crain

Product Details

• Publisher: Modern Library (2002-06-11)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 412 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780375759031
• Item Weight: 481.95 grams
• Dimensions: 21.74 x 14.12 x 2.39 cm

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.

About the Author

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