The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales

The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales

Edgar Allan Poe

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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe '... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...' Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', the creeping insanity of 'The Tell-Tale Heart', the Gothic nightmare of 'The Masque of the Red Death', and the terrible doom of 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Publication Year: 2012


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    Glad I took my time with this. The latter tales (with the exception of ‘The Purloined Letter’) of the book, I found to be more difficult to get through, especially ‘the gold-bug’; that’s why it’s a 4.25 star read and not higher. Nevertheless ‘William Wilson’, ‘Eleonora’, and ‘The Man Of The Crowd’ to name a few were fantastic!

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