Author: Mrs. RowsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Charlotte Temple
Author: Mrs. RowsonCharlotte and Lucy Temple
Author: Mrs. RowsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Betrayal
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Charlotte Temple
Author: Mrs. RowsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seduction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple
Author: Susanna RowsonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440672830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Rowson's tale of a young girl who elopes to the United States only to be abandoned by her fiance was once the bestselling novel in American literary history. This edition also includes Lucy Temple, the fascinating story of Charlotte's orphaned daughter.
Charlotte Temple
Author: Susanna RowsonPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307430774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
With an Introduction by Jane Smiley First published in America in 1794, Charlotte Temple took the country by storm—in fact, it was this nation’s first bona fide “bestseller.” Susanna Rowson’s most famous work is the story of an innocent British schoolgirl who takes the advice of her depraved French teacher— with tragic consequences. Seduced by the dashing Lieutenant Montraville, who persuades her to move to America with him, the fifteen-year-old Charlotte leaves her adoring parents and makes the treacherous sea voyage to New York. In the land of opportunity, Charlotte is callously abandoned by Montraville. Alone and pregnant with an illegitimate child, she valiantly fights to stave off poverty and ruin. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition.
Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself (Vol. 1&2)
Author: Robert Montgomery BirdPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
"Sheppard Lee, Written By Himself" is a satirical work from the early years of the American Republic. It was written in the form as an autobiography and acquired wide acclaim after publishing. The story tells about a young man wishing to find a buried treasure. Instead, he finds the power to transfer his soul into other men's bodies. This results in a picaresque journey through early American pursuits of happiness. But every new form disappoints him. Lee comes to the conclusion that everything in America, even virtue and vice, are interchangeable; everything is an object and has its price.
Charlotte Temple
Author: Mrs. RowsonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
'Charlotte Temple' is a novel by British-American author Susanna Rowson. The novel opens upon an unexpected encounter between the British Lieutenant Montraville and Charlotte Temple, a tall, elegant girl of 15. Montraville sets his mind on seducing Charlotte and succeeds with the help of his libertine friend Belcour and Mademoiselle La Rue, a teacher at the boarding school Charlotte attends. Mademoiselle La Rue had herself eloped from a convent with a young officer and "possessed too much of the spirit of intrigue to remain long without adventures."
Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers
Author: Sarah ChurchwellPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144116216X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A unique survey and interpretive history, spanning 200 years, of the American bestseller.
Charlotte Temple
Author: Mrs. RowsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Betrayal
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The book tells of the seduction of a British schoolgirl by a dashing soldier, John Montraville, who brings her to America and there abandons her, pregnant and ill. As such, it belongs to the seduction novel genre popular in early American literature. --Wikipedia.com.
Charlotte Temple
Author: Mrs. RowsonPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 9780195042382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Cathy N. Davidson offers a completely corrected edition, with a new introduction, of Charlotte Temple, the most widely read novel in America until Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Charlotte Temple tells the story of a young English girl, whose liaison with a British officer led her to Revolutionary America, where she was abandoned and died giving birth to an illegitimate child. Though no evidence exists to prove the existence of a real Charlotte, the author insisted that it was a "tale of truth" and wrote it to be "of service to [the]...young and unprotected woman in her first entrance into life."