Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror... the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics New introductions commissioned from…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 976) Аннотация: «With this marvelously illustrated and popularly priced volume, readers can appreciate the full range of Poe's genius. Images reproduced from a variety of sources (including Aubrey Beardsley, Édouard Manet, and Arthur Rackham) enhance the mood of such favorites as «The Fall of the House of Usher,» «The Cask of Amontillado,» «The Tell-Tale Heart,» «The Purloined Letter,» and «The Masque of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.' Including Poe's most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Stories to send shivers down the spine from the master of horror.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «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…
Скачать книгу (размер 284 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 57) Аннотация: 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,…
Скачать книгу (размер 213 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 43) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Kaplan guarantees that readers will improve their SAT score using guides — or get their money back. Vocabulary is a critical part of studying for the SATs. Memorizing words that are written on flashcards can be difficult because they are not put in the context of a sentence. Kaplan's SAT Score-Raising Classics make learning SAT vocabulary words easier and more enjoyable for students. Classic…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Edgar Allan Poe is one of the first masters of modern short stories and modernist poetry. But he is best remembered for his strange style of horror, with characters who cannot be forgotten. A man who drains away his wife’s life to make his painting seem alive; an animal lover who becomes obsessed by a cat; a young man obsessed by an old man’s blue eye; and a man hypnotized just before he dies who…
Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: 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.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: 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.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «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…
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: 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.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Reading Classics is series of 19th and 20th-century classics from the world of British and American literature edited by Paolo Bertinetti, Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Turin. Horror ('The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'William Wilson'), detection ('The Murders in the Rue Morgue') and the bizarre ('The Devil in the Belfry') all feature in this selection of eight…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: 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!
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Seven intriguing stories by one of the most famous and gifted writers of nineteenth century American literature.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: 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?