Reviews

Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker: With Related Texts by Stephen Shapiro, Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Barnard

esuem's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

myshatatiana18's review

2.0

Though the plot was interesting and many of the themes of the work did come across effectively, I could not really abide the prose of the book. I'm usually a big fan of long winded prose being a fan of most Victorian literature, but this book really tested my patience. It didn't help that the book was written from the first person perspective of a very infuriating character. He constantly thought about things and the narrative often repeated itself. Things got a bit easier halfway through but until then I had to force myself to wade through Edgar's constant ruminations.