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Alvin Addison

A little-known 19th-century novelist, he is remembered today for fast-moving frontier melodramas full of rivalry, danger, and romance. His surviving books offer a glimpse of popular American fiction from the 1830s.

2 Audiobooks

Eveline Mandeville : $b or, The horse thief rival

Eveline Mandeville : $b or, The horse thief rival

by Alvin Addison

Ellen Walton : $b or, The villain and his victims

Ellen Walton : $b or, The villain and his victims

by Alvin Addison

About the author

Very little biographical information about Alvin Addison appears to be widely documented. What can be confirmed is that he was an American novelist whose work was being published in Cincinnati in 1837.

Addison is known for novels including Eveline Mandeville; Or, The Horse Thief Rival and Ellen Walton; Or, The Villain and His Victims. Early editions and later library records connect him with sensational, plot-driven fiction in which threats, villains, and emotional reversals keep the story moving.

Because so little reliable background survives, Addison is best approached through the books themselves. For listeners interested in overlooked writers, his work has the appeal of a rediscovered corner of early American popular literature.