Edgar Huntly: Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (Vol.2)
by: (Charles Brockden Brown)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, H. Maxwell, 2nd Ed., 1801, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, worn leather covers, 252 pages, (Chapters XI-XVIII). Volume 2 ONLY. A 1799 novel by the American author Charles Brockden Brown. Edgar Huntly, a young man who lives with his uncle and sisters (his only remaining family) on a farm outside Philadelphia, is determined to learn who murdered his friend Waldegrave. Walking near the elm tree under which Waldegrave was killed late one night, Huntly sees Clithero, a servant from a neighboring farm, half-dressed, digging in the ground and weeping loudly. Huntly concludes that Clithero may be the murderer. He also concludes that Clithero is sleepwalking. Huntly decides to follow Clithero when he sleep walks. The novel was published by Hugh Maxwell. It is considered an example of early American gothic literature, with themes such as wilderness anxiety, the supernatural, darkness, and irrational thought and fear. Covers rubbed and worn, front cover detached, two bookplates on inside front cover.