Wieland: or The Transformation: An American Tale and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics)

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.