The Emigrants (Penguin Classics)
Book Details
Author(s)Gilbert Imlay
PublisherPenguin Classics
ISBN / ASIN0140436723
ISBN-139780140436723
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,558,442
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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.
