Wieland, or, The Transformation
10 best books like Wieland, or, The Transformation (Charles Brockden Brown): Nightmare Abbey, The Castle of Otranto, The Blithedale Romance, The House of the Seven Gables, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself, The Marble Faun, The Rise of Silas Lapham, Young Goodman Brown, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, The Bondwoman's Narrative
| Author | Thomas Love Peacock |
This 1818 novel is set in a former abbey whose owner, Christopher Glowry, is host to visitors who enjoy his hospitality and engage in endless debate. Among these guests are figures recognizable to Peacock's contemporaries, including characters based on Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Mr....
| Author | Horace Walpole |
| ISBN | 0192834401 |
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention,...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 1406501336 |
Abjuring the city for a pastoral life, a group of utopians set out to reform a dissipated America. But the group is a powerful mix of competing ambitions and its idealism finds little satisfaction in farmwork. Instead, of changing the world, the members of the Blithedale community individually pursue...
The House of the Seven Gables
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 0393924769 |
The sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the country breathes new air into mouldering lives and rooms. Written shortly after The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables re-addresses the theme of human guilt in a style...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
| Author | Olaudah Equiano |
| ISBN | 0312442033 |
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual. The second edition reproduces...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 0192839764 |
The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister...
| Author | William Dean Howells |
| ISBN | 0140390308 |
Book Review
3 of 5 stars to The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells. Most of the works of literature that made up the canon during the late nineteenth century were classified as realistic literature. These realistic works resembled life as realistically as possible, ranging from youthful...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 1557423628 |
Such a wonderfully (and eerily) subversive story of a man who sees what lies behind the virtuous facade. A classic "dark romance," it's got all the hallmarks of another kind of classic: that of the "hero cycle" (to use Joseph Campbell's famous phrase), where the hero has to leave society to gain wisdom,...
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0140437487 |
Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus....
| Author | Hannah Crafts |
| ISBN | 0446690295 |
The Barnes Noble Review
Through a sequence of fortuitous events detailed in the introduction, noted scholar and author Henry Louis Gates Jr. has discovered what he and others believe may be the first novel written by an African-American woman -- a discovery made even more monumental by the...
| Author | Catharine Maria Sedgwick |
| ISBN | 0140436766 |
Set in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chronicles the role of women in building the republic but also refocuses the emergent national literature on the lives, domestic mores, and values of American women.
For more than seventy...
| Author | Robert Montgomery Bird |
| ISBN | 1590172299 |
Originally published in 1836.
Sheppard Lee, Written By Himself is a work of dark satire from the early years of the American Republic. Published as an autobiography and praised by Edgar Allan Poe, this is the story of a young idler who goes in search of buried treasure and finds instead the power...
| Author | Hannah Webster Foster |
| ISBN | 0195042395 |
The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut.
Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly...
| Author | Susanna Rowson |
| ISBN | 0195042387 |
Charlotte Temple, a "best seller" that went through more than 200 editions, was the most popular American novel until Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. It tells of a beautiful English girl who at the age of 15 is courted by and runs away with a British lieutenant named Montraville. Once in America,...
