Level 3: The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories - Couverture souple

Poe, Edgar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405862351 ISBN 13 : 9781405862356

Editeur : Pearson Education, 2008

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A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Poe's work as a whole is a series of haunting improvisations on themes from the macabre that are hard to categorise, dazzlingly original and posthumously influential on an extraordinary range of writers from Baudelaire and RL Stevenson to Yeats, Wilde and Borges" (Observer)

"His work continues to enthral. His greatest tales (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum) radiate a dark humour and mockery that strike an oddly modern note" (Sunday Times)

"If genius is an exceptional capacity for imaginative creation, Poe had it in spades" (Daily Mail)

"His reputation as a master of the grotesque and macabre has veiled the real cause of his fame: an astonishing mastery of language and literary technique which made Arthur Ransome, himself no mean story technician and a considerable literary critic, liken his stories to rare coloured goblets or fantastic metalwork" (Independent)

Quatrième de couverture

'Poe's work is dazzlingly original and has influenced an extraordinary range of writers from Baudelaire and Stevenson to Yeats, Wilde and Borges' Observer

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of all his short stories and novellas contains well-known tales 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart' alongside hidden gems that both unsettle and enthral the reader.

See Also: The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1405862351
• ISBN 13: 9781405862356
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie