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Carregando... Ormond (1799)de Charles Brockden Brown
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Written in 1799 this "gothic" tale is set in Philadelphia. It's labeled as gothic, however, I don't find a lot of the normal gothic elements contained within. It is the story of Constantia, a single women who cares for her down and out, blind father. There are scoundrels along the way and she deals with each righteously. She may be a bit naive, or is she just very humble? This was a very slow-paced book which focused on character development. Written as 3 separate works (Vol 1, Vol 11 and Vol 111). However, they must be read in order and completely before the story can be understood. They are all free on Kindle. 348 pages ( ) Started but couldn't finish A early American Gothic novel set in Philadelphia in which Constantia Dudley, a virtuous young maiden whose family has been financially ruined by a con man, and whose friends and family succumb one after the other to yellow fever, must dodge seducers, murderers, impersonators and the dreaded disease itself. Reminds me a little of William Harrison Ainsworth's "Old Saint Paul's" set in London, where the plague is the disease of choice. Here's a tasty morsel from "Ormond": "Whiston, deserted by every human creature, burning with fever, tormented into madness by thirst, spent three miserable days in agony. When dead, no one would cover his body with earth, but he was suffered to decay by piecemeal." Though the title character is very significant and well delineated, the heroine of this brilliant and touching novel is Constance Dudley - as told by her friend Sophia Westwyn. Set in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia of the 1790's and published in 1799, this recounts the fall into penury of the Dudley family victimized by a trusted employee who embezzles huge sums and leaves them with unpayable debts. Moving to Philadelphia, they endure the loss of their mother, a yellow fever epidemic, rigors of winter and the exactions of landlords - kept afloat by the efforts and intelligence of their daughter Constance. Their fortunes abruptly change when Ormond, a wealthy military projector and conscientious atheist, falls in love with Constance and helps them obtain a measure of justice from Thomas Craig, who had victimized them. Unfortunately for Ormond, who has given up his mistress and hopes Constance will take her place, all his formidable talents and devious efforts are insufficient to sway Constance from her virtuous life. His self-centred morality leads to his destruction. My favorite so far from the great CBB. (edit) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML: Get a first-hand look at life in the decades following the birth of American in the well-written period novel Ormond by Charles Brockden Brown, whom many scholars describe as one of the most important literary voices in early America. Spirited heroine Constance Dudley faces one tribulation after another as her family struggles to find its footing in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War. .Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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