Ormond Paperback - 1999
by Charles Brockden Brown
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- very good
- Paperback
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Details
- Title Ormond
- Author Charles Brockden Brown
- Binding Paperback
- Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 301
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Broadview Press, Canada
- Date 1999
- Bookseller's Inventory # 18272
- ISBN 9781551110912 / 1551110911
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00302167
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
Brown is often called the first American novelist. Originally published in 1799, Ormond was inspired by enlightenment philosophers and Gothic writers. The novel engages with many of the period's popular debates about women's education, marriage, and the morality of violence, while the plot revolves around the Gothic themes of seduction, murder, incest, impersonation, romance and disease. Set in post-revolutionary Philadelphia, Ormond examines the prospects of the struggling nation by tracing the experiences of Constantia, a young virtuous republican who struggles to survive when her father's business is ruined by a confidence man, and her friends and neighbors are killed by a yellow fever epidemic.