Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793: With Related Texts (Hackett Classics)

Set during the epic Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793, Charles Brockden Brown's classic gothic novel Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 connects the outbreak with the upheavals of the revolutionary era and the murderous financial networks of Atlantic slavery.

This edition of Arthur Mervyn offers selections from key contemporary texts as well as excerpts from Brown's own writings on slavery, race, and the uses of history in fiction.

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• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions)
• The Scarlet Letter
• An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies With Related Texts
• Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Penguin Classics)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• The Scarlet Letter
• A Mercy
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin