Creepy Stories: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, and other stories...

by Edgar Allan Poe

Creepy stories . Vous avez peur du noir ? Les films d'horreur, très peu pour vous ? Lecteurs, reposez donc ce livre ! Car, si vous pensiez connaître Edgar Allan Poe comme l'un des plus grands auteurs du XIXième siècle, il est avant tout maître du suspens, roi de l'angoisse, empereur des ambiances macabres. Narrateurs fous, meurtriers pas comme les autres, maisons hantées... Passez du côté obscur, si vous l'osez. Frissons garantis !

Genres: School

240 pages, Paperback

Published August 19, 2020

About the author

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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Reviews

[Edragone · Rating 4 out of 5]

4

J'ai lu ces nouvelles (et poèmes) en anglais.

Le texte reste accessible, surtout dans cette édition où il y a de nombreuses notes de traduction. En outre, les histoires sont variées, tantôt longues, tantôt brèves, les lieux changent, les personnages changent, et nous sommes plongés dans un nouvel univers à chaque fois. On note que cette édition (Not so classic) est pourvue d'exercices et d'indications supplémentaires pour mieux comprendre la vie de Poe et son oeuvre.

[Millie · Rating 3 out of 5]

spend my sunday reading, that hadn't happen in a long time!!

i had never read poe in english (only in french) so this was quite the interesting and educative read for me. that being said while i'm used to read in english, the language was quite challenging (even with all the footnotes which were useful) but somehow it made it fun for me.

[Clémence · Rating 4 out of 5]

J'ai bien aimé les nouvelles et les poèmes. C'est un niveau assez accessible. Âme sensible s'abstenir pour les détails.

[ethelmrs · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Tell-Tale Heart stays my favourite short story!

[Charlie PARODI · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really liked the Tell-Tale-Heart, must be my favourite out of them all.