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The Emigrants |
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Gilbert Imlay - Author
Amanda Gilroy - Editor
W. M. Verhoeven - Editor
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| Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 368 pages | ISBN 9780140436723 | 01 Apr 1998 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP |
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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.
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