Edgar Huntly
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/edhnt10h.htm
The Project Gutenberg e-text of the novel.
The Question and Answer section for Edgar Huntly: Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
From the text:
This track led us to the skirt of the wilderness, and at no long time we reached an open field, when a dwelling appeared, at a small distance, which I speedily recognised to be that belonging to Inglefield.
The person is emotionally distraught. He thinks he sees and hears things in a seemingly empty well that are not there.
Edgar Huntly: or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker, published in 1799 by Charles Brockden Brown, is one of the earliest work of American fiction, and the first to depict the tense relationship between Americans and Indians on the frontier. Adopting but...