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Selected Tales

Edgar Allan Poe

Selected Tales

Paper book: €18.99

Digital: €4.99

Original publication
1845
Pages
377
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Horror, Crime and Thriller
Moods
Get the chills, Solve a mystery, Be enchanted
Translated from
English

Book summary

This collection brings together ten stories by Edgar Allan Poe. We enter the House of Usher, an old mansion that cracks along with the family who live in it. We attend the masked ball of Prince Prospero, shut away in his abbey while the Red Death ravages the land, and we listen to a murderer swear that he is not mad.

Here too is the first case of the Chevalier Dupin: with this character, Poe invented the detective story, long before Sherlock Holmes.

With the translation always in front of you, each story can be read in one sitting in the language you are learning.

The plot

Awal tiga dari sepuluh kisah. Seorang pria menerima surat dari Roderick Usher, sahabat masa kecilnya yang meminta tolong. Pada suatu senja musim gugur, ia tiba di depan rumah Usher yang suram.

The world of the book

Sekitar 1840, membaca untuk merinding. Pada masa itu, orang Amerika banyak membaca majalah. Majalah memuat cerita pendek yang bisa dibaca dalam satu malam. Sebagian besar dari sepuluh kisah ini pertama kali terbit di…

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