{"product_id":"charlotte-temple-paperback","title":"Charlotte Temple: A Classic Early American Bestseller - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusanna Haswell Rowson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCharlotte Temple\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the great early bestsellers of American literary history: a sentimental novel of innocence, seduction, betrayal, exile, and ruin.\u003c\/strong\u003e Young Charlotte is persuaded to leave England with the British officer Montraville, believing herself loved and protected. Instead, she is carried across the Atlantic into isolation, abandonment, poverty, and disgrace, while the promises made to her collapse under ambition, weakness, and social indifference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in London in 1791 as \u003cem\u003eCharlotte, A Tale of Truth\u003c\/em\u003e and published in America in 1794, Susanna Haswell Rowson's novel became a cultural phenomenon. Its story of a young woman destroyed by misplaced trust spoke powerfully to early American readers and helped make the seduction novel one of the defining forms of the period. More than a moral warning, \u003cem\u003eCharlotte Temple\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the vulnerability of women in a world where reputation, family authority, money, and male conduct could determine a woman's entire fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in early American fiction, women writers, sentimental novels, seduction narratives, and the history of popular reading will find \u003cem\u003eCharlotte Temple\u003c\/em\u003e essential. It is a landmark in the development of American literary culture: a book once read with extraordinary intensity, repeatedly reprinted, and remembered as one of the first great publishing successes of the new republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 11, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45593039011923,"sku":"9781617205279","price":24.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/9731\/2595\/files\/N15OkXIt7O9781617205279.webp?v=1783898747","url":"https:\/\/the-stone-owl-bookstore.myshopify.com\/products\/charlotte-temple-paperback","provider":"The Stone Owl Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}