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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

열 편 가운데 세 편의 시작. 한 남자가 어린 시절 친구 로더릭 어셔에게서 도와 달라는 편지를 받는다. 어느 가을 저녁, 그는 어셔의 음울한 저택에 다다른다.

The world of the book

1840년 무렵, 오싹함을 즐기던 독서. 당시 미국인들은 잡지를 즐겨 읽었다. 잡지에는 하룻저녁에 읽을 수 있는 짧은 이야기가 실렸다. 이 열 편도 대부분 잡지에 처음 발표되었다. 이야기는 독자를 먼 곳으로 데려간다. 외딴 옛 저택, 파리의 거리, 스페인의 감옥, 이탈리아 궁전의 지하실로.

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