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Edgar Huntly

(1799)
or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
A novel by

 
 
The story of a young man who sleepwalks each night and is a threat to himself and others, unable to control his baser passions. Set outside Philadelphia in 1787, the book is a metaphor for the founding of a new nation, but can be read on a literal level as an American "Gothic" novel.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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