Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Wordsworth Classics Collection) -

Edgar Allan Poe

Wordsworth Editions Ltd

1993

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-14: 9781853260131_

This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Premature Burial and The Tell-Tale Heart, all of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories are included. These are the first modern detective stories and include The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter.

Locked doors, bricked-up alcoves and premature burial close in on Poe's narrators as they, like their victims, are cut off from light, air and human society. The "disordered chambers" of the author's mind resonate with archetypal, if extreme, psychological states

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Eu já li alguns contos de Poe e mesmo relendo alguns aqui nessa edição, continuo os achando fantásticos. O desafio foi apenas o inglês antigo e formal, mas ainda sim uma ótima leitura. Li sem pressa, e recomendo demais que todos leiam Poe.