This unique collection of «Pirate Tales for Children (9 Books in One Edition)» has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe) Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) Captain Singleton (Daniel Defoe) Captain Sharkey (Arthur Conan Doyle) Coral Island (R. M. Ballantyne) Captain Boldheart (Charles Dickens) Master Key (L. Frank Baum) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. 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,...
First published in a 1842 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843, The Pit and the Pendulum takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and follows the plight of a prisoner in a cell that has a pit and a pendulum. Unlike many of Poe's short stories, The Pit and the Pendulum does not rely on any supernatural elements to inspire fear but instead uses the narrator's heightened sensory experiences to do so.
"Poemas" de Edgar Allan Poe (traducido por Carlos Arturo Torres, Alberto Lasplaces, Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde) de la Editorial Good Press. Good Press publica una gran variedad de títulos que abarca todos los géneros. Van desde los títulos clásicos famosos, novelas, textos documentales y crónicas de la vida real, hasta temas ignorados o por ser descubiertos de la literatura universal. Editorial Good Press divulga libros que son una lectura imprescindible. Cada publicación de Good Press ha...
Edgar Allan Poe´d teatakse rohkem kui õudus- ja kriminaallugude autorit. Käesolev raamat tutvustab aga ameerika kirjandusklassikut märksa mitmekülgsemalt – kui humoristi, kelle grotesksed õudusmaalingud võivad teinekord ootamatult omandada terava iroonia- ja sarkasmivarjundi ning muutuda suisa ühiskonnakriitiliseks pilapildiks. Lisaks klassikaliste õuduslugude uustõlgetele leidub siin ka Edgar Allan Poe iroonilisi naljalugusid, millel ilmneb sageli sügavam ja filosoofilisemgi tasand.
First published in a 1844 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1845, The Purloined Letter is the third and final story that features Poe's detective, C. Auguste Dupin. In it, Dupin is approached by the prefect of the police to help with a case that involves a stolen letter containing compromising information.
