num_pages: 412
description: 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.
language: English
title: Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics)
genres: Literature, American, Classics, School, Gothic, 18th Century, College, Horror, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 1992
series: Carwin 
publisher: Random House Publishing Group