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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

十篇中三篇的开头。一个男人收到儿时好友罗德里克·厄舍的来信,向他求助。一个秋日傍晚,他来到厄舍阴森的宅邸前。

The world of the book

1840年前后,读来令人战栗。那时,美国人爱读杂志。杂志刊登短小的故事,一个晚上就能读完。这十篇故事大多首发于杂志。它们把读者带往远方:偏僻的老宅、巴黎的街巷、西班牙的监狱,或意大利宫殿的地窖。

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