In the opening chapter, the uncle mysteriously disappears in a ball of fire.
In the opening chapter, the uncle mysteriously disappears in a ball of fire. Later, the brother is happily married while his sister resides with him and is courted by his rationalist friend, Pleyel. Then, strange conversations are overheard as a stranger named Carwin, a biloquist, appears and joins the family. The titular brother becomes pious and lost in religious study before a voice tells him to kill his family. FTP, name this 1790 American novel which contrasted pietism with the enlightenment, the best known work by Charles Brockden Brown.
In the opening chapter, the uncle mysteriously disappears in a ball of fire.
{Wieland} or the Transformation