Author : Charles Brockden Brown
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781481940429
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)
Book Synopsis Wieland (Lady Valkyrie Classics) by : Charles Brockden Brown
Download or read book Wieland (Lady Valkyrie Classics) written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic and timeless novel, we are immersed in a world that goes from sanity to insanity. In Wieland, we explore the realities of life on the eve of the American Revolution through religious delusions, fanaticism, and horrific violence. A family living on an estate outside Philadelphia is visited by mysterious voices, seemingly coming out of thin air. Soon thereafter, an itinerant character named Carwin will visit the family. Carwin is a mysterious stranger as well as a ventriloquist. Violence erupts when the family's young patriarch believes that he hears God's voice demanding a human sacrifice as a sign of faith. In the midst of all the insanity, the family will undergo a transformation involving horror, spontaneous combustion, false faith, psychological perversion, ventriloquism, and murder. Testing the limits of religious and literary authority in the new America, Brown's novel has for more than two centuries kept readers debating questions of agency, accountability, and revolutionary politics as the story's moral chaos unfolds. Visit ladyvalkyrie.com for more Classics as well as for other titles Categories/Series of books! Search for "lady valkyrie in books" for our latest titles right here at Amazon!