Edgar Allan Poe
3) The raven
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Presents Poe's haunting poem, which explores the terrifying truths that lurk deep within the human psyche.
4) The gold bug
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The discovery of a message in code on a shoreline formerly infested with pirates sends William Legrand and his friends on a hunt for buried treasure.
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For lovers of gothic American literature, horror, mystery, or suspense, consider the nine gripping stories contained within the Edgar Allen Poe collection "The Gold-Bug and Other Tales." Two mysteries and seven murders, all coming from various points in Poe's writing career, make this anthology a valuable addition to any literature collection. "The Gold-Bug" is set in South Carolina and follows the tale of a man and his servant as they embark on a...
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It is virtually impossible to overstate Edgar Allan Poe's importance in the field of American literature. He is credited not only with inventing or significantly advancing the short story, detective fiction, and science fiction, but also with being one of the first Americans to pursue a career in writing as a vocation. This comprehensive volume is a career-spanning collection of Poe's stories and poems.
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Signet classic volume CE 1659
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English
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A collection of fourteen of the author's best-known tales of mystery and the macabre includes "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Fall of the House of Usher," in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
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"Hailed as one of America's most preeminent storytellers, Edgar Allen Poe broods in a collection of poems that will captivate your modern reader with their lyricism and unworldly visions. Lovers of scary tales will appreciate his truly original voice and get a good introduction to classical literature." --Amazon.com.
11) Tales of terror
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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A collection of ten tales by the celebrated author of horror and mystery stories.
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Part of the Timeless Classics series, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe contains every know tale written by the famous gothic American writer. His often macabre and dark works, which span the years from 1827 to his death in 1849, include "The Raven," "The Black Cat," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "Annabelle Lee."
For Poe fans worldwide, this elegant collector's edition includes over 70 of Poe's short stories, more than 40 melodious poems,...
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Readers will recognize their favorite horror stories in the collection "The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings." Edgar Allen Poe was a master of suspense, horror, and mystery, and his stories, while truly terrifying, are also delightfully entertaining. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator has just killed a man and buried him under his floor. As he sits right above the body, he begins to hear the dead man's heart thumping loudly in his ears. Guilt...
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Features 41 of Poe's most memorable poems - among them "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Worm," "Eldorado" and "Annabel Lee" - reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe's personality and his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms and figures of speech. Alphabetic lists of titles and first lines.
17) Edgar Allan Poe
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Five stories by the nineteenth-century American writer best known for his tales of horror.
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The classic poems and spine-tingling stories of an American gothic master collected in one volume
Of all the American writers, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe remains the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill.
Born in Boston in
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Para se ter uma idéia precisa da influência de Edgar Allan Poe sobre os romances policiais e de mistério que tanto sucesso fariam a partir de meados do século XIX, basta dizer que, não fosse o conto "Assassinatos na rua Morgue" (1841), não haveria Sherlock Holmes (Conan Doyle, 1887), Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie, 1920), Padre Brown (G. K. Chesterton, 1911), Don Isidro Parodi (Bioy Casares e J. L. Borges, 1950) e tantos outros detetives ou...