Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Francisco Goya, Joseph Wright of Derby and Henry Fuseli. The back-story of the voice from Wieland: how a Pennsylvania farm boy discovered he could throw his own speech, and what a man with money and an interest in secret societies then made of him. Brown abandoned the law to become the first professional author in America, wrote four novels in fifteen months, and left this one unfinished — which suits it. Fifty-four plates, from Goya to Munch, run the fields and harvests of Carwin's rural boyhood, the open country the ventriloquist's voice learned to throw across.