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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

Starten på tre av de ti fortellingene. En mann får et brev fra Roderick Usher, en barndomsvenn som ber ham om hjelp. En høstkveld kommer han fram til Ushers dystre hus.

The world of the book

Rundt 1840 leser man for å grøsse. På den tiden leser amerikanerne mange blader. De trykker korte fortellinger som man leser på én kveld. De fleste av disse ti fortellingene sto der først. De tar leseren langt…

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