The Emigrants

by Gilbert Imlay

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140436723
• ISBN13: 9780140436723
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher