The Emigrants

by Gilbert Imlay

Other authorsAmanda Gilroy (Editor), W. M. Verhoeven (Editor)
Paperback, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

823.6

Tags

Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, English literature, fiction, epistolary, immigrants

Genres

Collection

Your library

Publication

Penguin Classics (1998), Paperback, 368 pages

Description

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.

Subjects

Adventure stories
British United States Fiction
Epistolary fiction
United States History 1783-1815 Fiction

Language

English

Original publication date

1793

Physical description

368 p.; 7.8 inches

ISBN

0140436723 / 9780140436723

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