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Seven Stories of Mystery and Horror Exercises with 2 CD Pack (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 88 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20092009-04-29
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«The Pit and the Pendulum»: A prisoner wakes up to find himself in a dark cell with a deep pit. «The Gold Bug»: A golden insect leads to an incredible discovery. «The facts in the case of Mr. Valdemar»: A patient is hypnotised minutes before he dies. Is he really dead? «The Fall of the House of Usher»: A man visits an old friend and finds himself in a house full of horrors! «Down in the Maelstrom»: A sailor describes a terrifying trip though the maelstrom. «The Masque of the Red Death»: No one can escape the red death-not even a prince! «The Oblong Box»: A traveller boards a ship to New York. What does he carry in the oblong box? Retold by Stephen Colbourn.»
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Oxford Bookworms Library 2: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2007 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20102010-09-27
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Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers — now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed seven-stage system of grading, from Starter to Stage 6, remains the same, helping you to find the right level for all your students. The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked — with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened — on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Except Auguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people. The answers to the mystery were all there, but only a clever man could see them.
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Oxford Bookworms Library 3: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2007 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20092010-09-17
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The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night... is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror... is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round? These famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, that master of horror, explore the dark world of the imagination, where the dead live and speak, where fear lies in every shadow of the mind...
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Penguin Readers 3: The Black Cat and other stories
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 56 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20132011-04-15
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Are you brave enough to read four of Poe’s famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don’t read this book late at night!
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 72 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-17
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There are five stories in this book. The Fall of the House of Usher' and The Barrel of Amontillado' are stories of madness; The Maelstrom' describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in The Murders of the Rue Morgue' and The Stolen Letter' meet C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's famous Parisian detective.
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A Collection of Stories
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 1994 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091996-10-21
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«Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate «reader friendly» type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of «Edgar Allan Poe» includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by S. T. Joshi. His life was a nightmare as gruesome as any of his stories. And his stories are dark masterpieces of gutwrenching horror.»
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Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2004 Страниц: 1008 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20092007-02-13
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Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune. In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities — journalism, poetry, lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (1841) — he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of 'The Raven' in 1845. The poem's instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline. In 1849 he was found sick, injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern. Taken to hospital, he lingered on for four days, but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40. He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters — a genius who, thanks to his dire reputation, was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime. It was not until Baudelaire enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience in Europe, and became not only an enormous influence on modern French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle and Jules Verne.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20122014-08-27
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«The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym» is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But it also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative dilemmas, at last leaving the reader with a broken-off ending that defies solution. Apart from its violence and mystery, the tale calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing truth. Layer upon layer of elaborate hoaxes include its author's own role of posing as ghost-writer of the narrative; «Pym» — his only novel — has become the key text for our understanding of Poe. This edition offers eight short tales which are linked to «Pym» by their treatment of persistent themes — fantastic voyages, gigantic whirlpools, and premature burials — or by their ironic commentary on Poe's mystification of his readers.»
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Oxford Bookworms Library 2: The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20112011-09-27
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Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around you, waiting... In these stories by Edgar Allan Poe, death whispers at you from every dark corner, and fear can send you mad...
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Зарубежная литература Год: 1998 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20092001-04-22
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«Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including «The Tell-Tale Heart», «The Murders in the Rue Morgue», «The Fall of the House of Usher», «The Pit and the Pendulum», «William Wilson», «The Black Cat», «The Cask of Amontillado» and «Eleonora». Here too is a major selection of what Poe characterized as the passion of his life, his poems — «The Raven», «Annabel Lee», «Ulalume», «Lenore», «The Bells» and more, plus his glorious prose poem «Silence — A Fable» and only full-length novel, «The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym».»
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Seven Stories of Mystery and Horror Reader
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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Seven intriguing stories by one of the most famous and gifted writers of nineteenth century American literature.
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 120 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092011-02-29
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Edgar Allan Poe, the father of the detective story' and a master of horror, is one of the greatest American short story writers. In these stories we meet people struggling with fear, revenge, mental illness and death. Which of them will win and which will lose their battles?
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Outstanding Short Stories
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 120 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092011-02-29
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This collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people to whom something unexpected happens. Others are about unusual characters or events. Some of the stories are funny and others are more serious. All of them are highly enjoyable.
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Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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There are five stories in this book. The Fall of the House of Usher' and The Barrel of Amontillado' are stories of madness; The Maelstrom' describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in The Murders of the Rue Morgue' and The Stolen Letter' meet C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's famous Parisian detective.
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The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 140 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20112011-04-17
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From the exquisite lyric “To Helen”, to the immortal masterpieces “Annabel Lee”, “The Bells”, and “The Raven”, The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates the author’s gift for the form.
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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«This book features an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize 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».»
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Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue et La lettre volée (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: CIDEB Год: 2007 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20092009-07-23
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Two cases of detection for Monsieur Auguste C. Dupin, Poe’s great detective. Who could have committed the atrocious murders in the Rue Morgue and so how did the murderer get in, or out? Will Dupin find the purloined letter and save the royal personage? Where is the minister hiding it?
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue And The Purloined Letter (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: CIDEB Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20092004-09-30
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Two cases of detection for Monsieur Auguste C. Dupin, Poe’s great detective. Who could have committed the atrocious murders in the Rue Morgue and so how did the murderer get in, or out? Will Dupin find the purloined letter and save the royal personage? Where is the minister hiding it?
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Selected Tales
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20112010-07-24
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Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favour of blurred boundaries between self and other, will and morality, identity and memory, Poe uses the Gothic to question the integrity of human existence. Indeed, Poe is less interested in solving puzzles or in moral retribution than in exposing the misconceptions that make things seem 'mysterious' in the first place. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new critical edition selects twenty-four tales and places the most popular — 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Masque of the Red Death', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue; and 'The Purloined Letter' — alongside less well-known Top page travel narratives, metaphysical essays and political satires.
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays and Reviews
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112009-12-07
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This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind.
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