The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales (Edgar Allan Poe Collection, #9) (Novels.Man, #18) (Classics Illustrated JES, JES45)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Matthew Pearl (Introduction)

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Collected in these two volumes are Poe's legendary tales of terror that attest to his stylistic brilliance in evoking an atmosphere of gloom and obsession. Creatures, eyes, coffins, walls--all are symbols in Poe's efforts to create an aura of evil. What reader would not share the anxiety of the traveler in The Fall of the House of Usher, who upon his first glimpse of the house, finds an -insufferable gloom pervading my spirit...an utter depression of the soul...an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart-? In volume 2 his nightmarish visions take us down untraveled paths revealing the dark side of the human experience.

  • ISBN10 0307432440
  • ISBN13 9780307432445
  • Publish Date 18 December 2007 (first published 1 April 1841)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Modern Library
  • Edition Critical ed.
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 93
  • Language English