http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 XTF Search Results (f1-subject=fiction;f2-date=1805;f3-subject=tale) http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?f1-subject%3Dfiction;f2-date%3D1805;f3-subject%3Dtale Results for your query: f1-subject=fiction;f2-date=1805;f3-subject=tale Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT Somnambulism. A fragment. Brown, Charles Brockden http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05335.xml The following fragment will require no other preface or commentary than an extract from the Vienna Gazette of June 14, 1784. “At Great Glogau, in Silesia, the attention of physi- cians, and of the people, has been excited by the case of a young man, whose behaviour indicates perfect health in all respects but one. He has a habit of rising in his sleep, and performing a great many actions with as much order and exactness as when awake. This habit for a long time showed itself in freaks and achieve- ments merely innocent, or, at least, only troublesome and inconvenient, till about six weeks ago. At that period a shocking event took place about three leagues from the town, and in the neighbourhood where the youth's family resides. A young lady, travelling with her father by night, was shot dead upon the road, by some person unknown. The offi- cers of justice took a good deal of pains to trace the author of the crime, and at length, by carefully comparing circumstances, a suspicion was fixed upon this youth. Afte... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-05335.xml Wed, 01 May 1805 12:00:00 GMT