Arthur Mervyn

By Brown, Charles Brockden

Book Id: WPLBN0002950437
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File Size: 503.72 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Arthur Mervyn
Author:	Brown, Charles Brockden
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Arthur Mervyn
Historic Publication Date:	1799
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Brockden Brown, B. C. (1799). Arthur Mervyn. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the country who arrives in a city stricken with Yellow Fever. He soon comes down with the illness and is rescued by a kindly doctor. Arthur tells the doctor and his wife the story of his life, thereby gaining the doctor’s confidence and good will. However, others familiar with Arthur tell another tale, and the doctor’s as well as the reader’s confidence in Arthur is shaken. Brown, who himself contracted Yellow Fever during an outbreak in New York City, vividly describes the horrors of the disease and its effects on an early American city. (Summary by Margaret)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Fiction