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The Emigrants Paperback - 1998
by Gilbert Imlay
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
Published in 1793, THE EMIGRANTS was one of the first novels to contrast the rigid political structure and society of Europe with the utopian promise of America. Set on the western frontier of the new nation, this epistolary novel deftly combines a love story with rich descriptions of the landscape and of wilderness adventures, including one of the first instances of Indian captivity in American fiction.
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- Title The Emigrants
- Author Gilbert Imlay
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 1998
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0140436723I4N00
- ISBN 9780140436723 / 0140436723
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.13 x 0.7 in (19.81 x 13.03 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Adventure stories, Epistolary fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97034617
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Imlay’s delightful epistolary adventure of 1793, set on the American frontier, was one of the first American novels. The trials of an emigrant family in the Ohio River Valley of Kentucky contrast the decadence of Europe with the utopian promise of the American West. Its sensational love plots also dramatize the novel’s surprising feminist allegiances.