<P> In Philadelphia, Carwin receives a good education, but has to deal with hard times after the death of his aunt . He is left alone, because his aunt left everything in her possession to a faithful servant . For a second time, Carwin decides to use his ventriloquism, this time to imitate the voice of his dead aunt as a way to convince the servant that he is the rightful heir . Again, however, he fails to carry out his plan . At this time, a mysterious upper - class man named Ludloe decides to take Carwin under his wing . Carwin begins to idolize Ludloe for his way of life and his supreme education . Ludloe invites Carwin to travel to Europe with him, and Carwin, having nowhere else to go, willingly agrees . Throughout this relationship, Carwin never confides his biloquial abilities to Ludloe . Mysteriously enough, Carwin discovers that Ludloe is a member in a secret society, and immediately his curiosity is piqued . Carwin wants to be trusted with information about the society, but Ludloe always keeps him at a distance . Ludloe agrees that in time, Carwin might be able to be let into the society, but in the meantime sends Carwin all over Europe to increase his education . Additionally, Ludloe suggests marriage for Carwin as a step closer to his entrance into Ludloe's secret society . Mrs. Benington, a recent widow, is the suggested wife for Carwin, because with marriage he would acquire all her land and property . After this, Ludloe claims that he will start to talk to Carwin about the secret society . </P> <P> At the end of this story fragment, Ludloe requests to speak to Carwin . He demands that Carwin tell him all about his life, with complete honesty . Ludloe argues that the only way to completely trust and have faith in Carwin is to know everything about him . Carwin decides to tell the truth; however, selectively leaves out his biloquial talents . After this conversation, Ludloe admits that he knows an extensive amount of information about Carwin's past, especially regarding a mysterious murder of a woman in Toledo that Carwin was acquainted with . The story ends abruptly here with no conclusion . The reader only knows that Carwin's character reappears later in his life in Wieland; or The Transformation . </P> <P> Brown began his story in 1798, halted his writing, and continued again in 1803 . From November 1803 until March 1805, Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist, or Carwin for short, was released in monthly installments in Brown's Literary Magazine . Brown never completed his story, and it has always remained unfinished, and unresolved . </P> <P> Carwin is technically the sequel to Brown's previous work, Wieland; or the Transformation, because Brown wrote it five years afterwards; however, the events in Carwin occur prior to the plot established in Wieland . The common connection to the two novels is the character Carwin and his mysterious biloquial abilities . Carwin attempts to develop the history and background of Carwin prior to his appearance in Wieland as a way of clarifying some of the uncertainty that surrounds Carwin throughout Wieland . </P>

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