With an Introduction by Jane Smiley First published in America in 1794, **Charlotte Temple** took the country by stormin fact, it was this nations first bona fide bestseller. Susanna Rowsons most famous work is the story of an innocent British schoolgirl who takes the advice of her depraved French
Charlotte Temple
β Scribed by Susanna Rowson
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Modern Library
- Year
- 2007;2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 113 KB
- Edition
- Modern Library pbk. ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Seduced by the dashing Lieutenant Montraville, who persuades her to move to America with him, the fifteen-year-old Charlotte Temple leaves her adoring parents and makes the treacherous sea voyage to New York. In the land of opportunity, Charlotte is callously abandoned by Montraville. Alone and pregnant with an illegitimate child, she valiantly fights to stave off poverty and ruin.
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Rowson's tale of a young girl who elopes to the United States only to be abandoned by her fiance was once the bestselling novel in American literary history. This edition also includes Lucy Temple, the fascinating story of Charlotte's orphaned daughter.
Haar moeders hebben Charlotte haar jonge leven lang bezworen dat haar vader een anonieme donor was, uit zoβn advertentie in Vrij Nederland. Maar na de verdrinkingsdood van haar echte moeder tovert de andere een officiΓ«le akte te voorschijn, waarin een rijke zakenman als haar vader staat genoteerd.
Internationally literary phenomenon, multiple award-winner, and massive bestseller with over 500,000 copies in print in France and rights sold in 20 countries, Charlotte tells the story of artist Charlotte Salomon--born in pre-World War II Berlin to a Jewish family traumatized by suicide. Obsessed