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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: February 3, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Marx Swanholm

Special to the Star Tribune

Young Jonathan Barnes, a few years out of Oxford University and now a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, puts his reading to good use in "The Somnambulist."

Set in London around the turn of the previous century, Barnes' novel incorporates many of the weirder elements of 19th-century literature and thought. The ghosts of Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and Mary Shelley dance merrily through, kicking up Victorian fascinations with the occult, utopias and Galvanism - the belief that life might be created or ...

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