Somnambulism and Other Stories

by Alfred Weber

Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) is well known as the first American novelist of significance, the predecessor of Poe and Hawthorne, and the first professional American man of letters. Largely unknown are the short stories he wrote. They have been identified, over a long period of time, by a number of leading American Brown scholars and the editor of this volume. "Somnambulism and other Stories" is the first collection of short stories by C.B. Brown ever published. It offers a critical text of eleven stories and contains a full documentation of all the evidence that led to their attribution.

It is the second of a projected series of critical and annotated editions of selected writings of C.B. Brown which focus on texts not contained in the Bicentennial Edition of "The Novels and" "Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown." It aims at widening the bibliographical and textual basis for the study of Brown's works and making his hitherto unknown or neglected writings accessible to the student of American literature.

Genres: Gothic, Horror, Short Stories, Classics, American

292 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 1987

About the author

was a German economist, geographer, sociologist and theoretician of culture whose work was influential in the development of modern economic geography.

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

From American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps.

You may read online here.

Opening lines:
The following fragment will require no other preface or com- mentary than an extract from the Vienna Gazette of June 14, 1784. “At Great Glogau, in Silesia, the attention of physicians, and of the people, has been excited by the case of a young man, whose behaviour indicates perfect health in all respects but one.

[Caroline · Rating 2 out of 5]

(Somnambulism: A Fragment only)
I didn't really find this story interesting. You know what happens immediately, so that ruins it. It's when you don't know an unreliable narrator is exciting.

[Jeremiah · Rating 2 out of 5]

[only read Somnambulism: A Fragment, but the only form on this website is this so...]

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for Uni.

[devi · Rating 2 out of 5]

[only read sonambulism] this was a little lame but whatever