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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

Cum încep trei din cele zece povestiri. Un bărbat primește o scrisoare de la Roderick Usher, un prieten din copilărie care îi cere ajutorul. Într-o seară de toamnă, ajunge în fața casei întunecate a lui Usher.

The world of the book

Pe la 1840, se citea pentru fiori. Pe atunci, americanii citesc multe reviste. Ele publică povestiri scurte, care se citesc într-o seară. Cele mai multe dintre aceste zece povestiri au apărut acolo pentru prima dată.…

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