Arthur Mervyn (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781438526683)

Charles Brockden Brown was America's first professional novelists. His best-known novel was Wireland of the Transformation. Brown's startlingly prophetic novels are a virtual resume of themes that would constantly recur in American literature: madness and murder, suicide and religious obsession, the seduction of innocence and the dangers of wilderness. Arthur Mervyn is set during a yellow-fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793. In Arthur Mervyn, Brown draws on his own experiences to create indelible scenes of Philadelphia devastated by a yellow fever epidemic, while telling the story of a young man caught in the snares of a professional swindler. Arthur Mervyn is discovered by Dr. Stevens sitting on a bench. He is suffering from yellow fever, and since Dr. Stevens pities him he is invited into the Stevens household. This is his story.

Author: Charles Brockden Brown
ISBN-10: 1438526687
ISBN-13: 9781438526683
Publisher: Book Jungle
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2009
Pages: 394
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.81d