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Wieland; or the Transformation
ISBN: 9781508766636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Charles Brockden Brown is widely considered one of early America's foremost writers, despite dying before the age of 40. His works were hailed as the predecessor of works such as James Fenimore Cooper's. Here's an excerpt from the beginning: "The following Work is delivered to the world as the first of a series of performances, which the favorable reception of this will induce the Writer to publish. His purpose is neither selfish nor temporary, but aims at the illustration of some important branches of the moral constitution of man. Whether this tale will be classed with the ordinary or...
Charles Brockden Brown is widely considered one of early America's foremost writers, despite dying before the age of 40. His works were hailed as the ...
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27,34 zł |
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Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
ISBN: 9780199538775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the earliest major American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1760s. Based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the novel employs Gothic devices and sensational elements such as spontaneous combustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism. Also included is Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, the unfinished sequel to Wieland, in which Brown considers power and manipulation while tracing Carwin's career as a disciple of the utopist Ludloe.
About the Series:... One of the earliest major American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1760s...
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51,94 zł |
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Wieland
ISBN: 9781985388086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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63,40 zł |
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Jane Talbot ( NOVEL). By: Charles Brockden Brown: Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 - February 22, 1810) was an American novelist, histor
ISBN: 9781977521385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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46,24 zł |
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Wieland: An American Tale
ISBN: 9781725915138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,86 zł |
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Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
ISBN: 9781617206467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist follows the life of a young man by the name of Carwin as he realizes his biloquial, ventriloquist, talents. Carwin develops this ability to perfection, being able to manipulate his own voice to sound like any person he wants. Carwin is the sequel to Brown's previous work, Wieland; or the Transformation, because Brown wrote it five years afterwards; however, the events in Carwin occur prior to the plot established in Wieland.
Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist follows the life of a young man by the name of Carwin as he realizes his biloquial, ventriloquist, talents. Carwin de...
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63,54 zł |
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Arthur Mervyn
ISBN: 9781438526683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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...
Charles Brockden Brown was America's first professional novelists. His best-known novel was Wireland of the Transformation. Brown's startlingly prophe...
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155,56 zł |
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Edgar Huntly
ISBN: 9781545279144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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36,47 zł |
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Wieland; or, the Transformation. An American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown, Fiction, Horror
ISBN: 9781598186215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A light proceeding from the edifice made every part of the scene visible. A gleam diffused itself over the intermediate space, and instantly a loud report, like the explosion of a mine, followed. She uttered an involuntary shriek, but the new sounds that greeted her ear, quickly conquered her surprise. They were piercing shrieks, and uttered without intermission. The gleams which had diffused themselves far and wide were in a moment withdrawn, but the interior of the edifice was filled with rays." -- From Weiland, by Charles Brockden Brown "A light proceeding from the edifice made every part of the scene visible. A gleam diffused itself over the intermediate space, and instantly a lou... |
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73,68 zł |
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Ormond or the Secret Witness Volume II
ISBN: 9781533251756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable p...
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31,91 zł |
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Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (A Fragment): in large print
ISBN: 9783387002652 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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273,41 zł |
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Edgar Huntly Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker: Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
ISBN: 9780140390629 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the first American Gothic novels, Edgar Huntly (1787) mirrors the social and political temperaments of the postrevolutionary United States.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date... One of the first American Gothic novels, Edgar Huntly (1787) mirrors the social and political temperaments of the postrevolutionary United Stat...
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78,25 zł |
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Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist [A Fragment]
ISBN: 9781499757231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, af...
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31,91 zł |
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Edgar Huntly: Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
ISBN: 9781979881272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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36,29 zł |
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Wieland; Or The Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist: Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
ISBN: 9781725915800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,86 zł |
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Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist
ISBN: 9783842426825 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,67 zł |
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Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown, Fantasy, Historical, Literary
ISBN: 9781603124997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the bleak night, beneath the stretching limbs of the shadowy elm, a shot rings out -- and the hurrying Edgar Huntly arrives to find his friend Waldegrave insensate and bleeding on the ground. Who could have murdered such an honest, blameless man? Walking to his uncle's house on another gloomy night, Huntly succumbs to the impulse to revisit that fatal elm -- only to have the mystery around the murder deepen: for Huntly spies beneath the shadowed tree a robust, half-clad man digging in the earth -- and then falling to his knees and weeping Themes include sleepwalking, morality and truth... In the bleak night, beneath the stretching limbs of the shadowy elm, a shot rings out -- and the hurrying Edgar Huntly arrives to find his friend W... |
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82,37 zł |
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Jane Talbot: in large print
ISBN: 9783387317152 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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410,34 zł |
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Wieland: Or, the Transformation: An American Tale and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780375759031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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... Called a "remarkable story" by John Greenleaf Whittier and described by John Keats as "very powerful," "Wieland," Charles Brockden Brown's disturbing ...
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99,98 zł |
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Wieland; or, the Transformation, by Charles Brockden Brown: An American Tale (Hackett Classics)
ISBN: 9781533132161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale, usually simply called Wieland, is the first major work by Charles Brockden Brown. First published in 1798, it distinguishes the true beginning of his career as a writer. Wieland is the first - and most famous - American Gothic novel. It has often been linked to Caleb Williams by William Godwin. Godwin's influence is clear, but Brown's writing is unique in its style. Wieland is often categorized under several subgenres other than gothic fiction, Set sometime between the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War, Wieland details...
Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale, usually simply called Wieland, is the first major work by Charles Brockden Brown. First published i...
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38,76 zł |