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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

十編のうち三編の始まり。ある男に、幼なじみのロデリック・アッシャーから助けを求める手紙が届く。秋の夕暮れ、男はアッシャーの陰気な屋敷にたどり着く。

The world of the book

1840年ごろ、人々はぞっとするために読んだ。当時のアメリカ人は雑誌をよく読んだ。雑誌には、ひと晩で読める短い物語が載った。この十編の多くも、まず雑誌に発表された。物語は読者を遠くへ連れ出す。人里離れた古い屋敷へ、パリの街へ、スペインの牢獄へ、イタリアの館の地下室へ。

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