Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker

9 hrs. 24 min.

Language Russian

Author Charles Brown

Narrator Sergey Kirsanov

Description

Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810), the “father” of the American novel, the first serious prose writer of the New World, journalist, critic, founder of the magazines “Monthly Magazine,” “Literary Magazine,” and “American Review,” and author of six novels, is best known for “Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker” (1799). Detective-like in plot, it is constructed as a subtle psychological study, intensifying horror through a series of mysterious tragic events organically woven into the realities of contemporary America. Brown’s perfect command of the art of creating and sustaining the necessary mood lends his horrors a frightening plausibility. A few sinister touches—and the reader is immersed in an atmosphere of the presence of otherworldly forces, felt almost physically.