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 Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate collection of the infamous author’s macabre works.Considered to be...
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Margaret Naudi. 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,...
Эдгар А. По (1809-1849) мифотворец, его творчество необходимо изучать. Особенно в техническую эпоху, лишенную мифа, лишенную воображения. Данный сборник содержит единственный его роман «Сообщение Артура Гордона Пима» и рассказ «Манускрипт, найденный в бутылке». Эти произведения исследуют область магической географии, неведомую и неподвластную научному прогрессу.
