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- 初版刊行年
- 1798by チャールズ・ブロックデン・ブラウン
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対象読者
Readers who love Gothic suspense, eerie voices in the night, and puzzles about what the senses can be trusted to tell us. It also suits anyone curious about early American fiction.
本の内容
Picture a small temple on a rock above the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia. Twelve columns hold up a dome, and each midnight a man climbs there alone to pray. One night a light flashes, a blast rings out, and he is found burned and dying. How can a still night bring such a death?
Wieland; or, The Transformation appeared in 1798, the work of Charles Brockden Brown, an American novelist who wanted to show how the mind can be led astray. It comes as a letter from Clara Wieland to friends who want to know why her family is gone. You get a Gothic mystery full of voices that come from nowhere.
この要約の内容
- 1A dusty book sends a clerk toward lonely faith無料
- 2A strange fire ends the father's life
- 3A close circle of friends finds happiness at Mettingen
- 4A voice on the hill warns Wieland away
- 5The same voice answers Pleyel about his lost love
- 6A rough stranger arrives with a voice no one forgets
- 7Whispers in the closet and a warning in the summerhouse
- 8Clara hopes for love and a closet door will not open
- 9Voices test whether the senses can be trusted
- 10A letter, a family, and the cost of faulty upbringing
重要なポイント 1/10
A dusty book sends a clerk toward lonely faith
Clara's father is a young clerk in London, apprenticed to a harsh merchant. He has no time for rest and no taste for books. He feels a vague hunger that nothing around him can feed.
One Sunday he opens a dusty volume in his attic, and a single line catches his eye. He reads until the light fails, then turns to the Bible and takes its verses one at a time, each standing alone. Soon he lives under a strict inner watch. He believes he must carry the gospel to the native peoples of North America. He sails for Philadelphia, loses his nerve, and buys a farm on the Schuylkill instead.
Back home he joins no church, because he thinks true worship must be silent and solitary. On a rock near his house he builds a small temple, a dome on twelve columns, and prays there at noon and at midnight. Then he says he once put off a command from God, and that a strange punishment now waits for him. Faith built on one private reading can harden into a belief that no one around it can test.
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『『ウィーランド、あるいは変身――アメリカ物語』』についての質問
What is Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown about?
It is a Gothic novel told by Clara Wieland in a letter. It follows her family at Mettingen near Philadelphia as mysterious voices and a stranger named Carwin shake their sense of what is real.
Who is Carwin in Wieland?
Carwin is an English traveler who arrives at Mettingen in rough country clothes with an unforgettable voice. He is learned and charming, but he keeps his history secret, and the others never know whether to trust him.
Is Wieland based on a true story?
The tale is fiction, but Brown says it draws on real cases of strange deaths and mental delusion known to doctors of his day. It was published in 1798 and set before the American Revolution.
Is Wieland easy to read today?
Clara's voice is direct and emotional, and the chapters are short, with suspense building scene by scene. Dialogue and cliffhangers keep the pace moving, and the language is clear and vivid.
What is the main message of Wieland?
Brown shows how easily the mind can mislead us, and how upbringing, belief, and trust in our senses can lead good people into disaster. He asks us to test what we hear and think.
この版を引用します
Brown, Charles Brockden. Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/wieland-or-the-transformation-an-american-tale.
Brown, C. B. (2026). Wieland; or, the transformation: An American tale. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/wieland-or-the-transformation-an-american-tale (Original work published 1798)
Brown, Charles Brockden. Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/wieland-or-the-transformation-an-american-tale.
@book{brown2026wieland,
author = {Brown, Charles Brockden},
title = {Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/wieland-or-the-transformation-an-american-tale},
note = {First published 1798}
}
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