{"product_id":"9781411467859","title":"Edgar Huntly (Barnes \u0026 Noble Digital Library): Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.\u003c\/b\u003e Waldegrave is dead.  Murdered.  His assassin is unknown.  His friend, a young man named Edgar Huntly, desperately searches for clues to the identity of the assailant, to no avail.  Then one night, Edgar discovers a strange man digging a hole underneath the same elm tree where the slain Waldegrave was discovered.  A moment later, the stranger turns from the elm and walks deep into the tangled woods of Norwalk.  Thus begins America’s first great murder mystery.  \u003ci\u003eEdgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker\u003c\/i\u003e (1799) is a dark tale of frontier violence, murder, revenge, and the deep psychological obsessions that break down human rationality.  Written in the tradition of the late eighteenth-century European gothic romance, but adapted by \u003cb\u003eBrown\u003c\/b\u003e to American themes and subjects, \u003ci\u003eEdgar Huntly\u003c\/i\u003e is the crowning achievement of one of America’s first great novelists.","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126246326512,"sku":"9781411467859","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781411467859_p0.jpg?v=1769896879","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781411467859","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}