Download or read book The Emigrants written by Gilbert Imlay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.