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    Series series The Art of the Novella
    We are such volatile creatures that we finally feel the sentiments we feign.First published in 1816, Adolphe is the story of a young man with all the privileges and advantages of a noble birth, bt who's still haunted by the meaninglessness of life. He seeks distraction in the pursuit of the beautiful, but older and married Ellenore, a fictionalized version of Madame de Stael. The young Adolphe, ... Read more

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    The Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this volume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary ... Read more

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  • The Turn of the Screw

    by Henry James ...
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  • Penny Dreadful Presents ...

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    'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan PoeDecades before Sherlock Holmes, American author Edgar Allan Poe created the detective story in this remarkable trilogy of short stories featuring genius French criminologist C. Auguste Dupin.'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' represents the beginning of crime fiction. The story was first published in Graham's Magazine in 1841 and has been recognized ... Read more

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  • Selected Tales

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization ... Read more

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  • The Short Stories Of Edgar Allan Poe Vol. 1

    The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this volume we ... Read more

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  • The Judge's House & Ligeia - Level 4 - Cd li

    A Cambridge student rents a long-vacant home in order to study without distractions. Preparing for exams has never been so dangerous: Each night, an enormous rat materializes in a chair by the fireplace.The Judge's HouseThe story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligant raven-haired woman. She recites 'The Conqueror Worm' before she dies and suggests that life ... Read more

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  • The Judge's House & Ligeia

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    The Judges House LigeiaA Cambridge student rents a long-vacant home in order to study without distractions. Preparing for exams has never been so dangerous: Each night, an enormous rat materializes in a chair by the fireplace.The Judge’s HouseThe story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligant raven-haired woman. She recites ’The Conqueror Worm’ before she dies ... Read more

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  • The Altar of the Dead

    by Henry James ...
    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. HE had a mortal dislike, poor Stransom, to lean anniversaries, and loved them still less when they made a pretence of a figure. Celebrations and suppressions were equally painful to him, and but one of the former found a place in his life. He had kept each year in his own fashion the date of Mary Antrim's ... Read more

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  • The Haunted and the Haunters (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

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  • The Middle Years

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Henry James Collection
    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Middle Years’.It may be the most affecting and profound of James's stories about writers. The novelist in the tale speculates that he has spent his whole life learning how to write, so a second life would make sense, "to apply the lesson." Second lives aren't usually available, so the novelist says of himself and his fellow artists ... Read more

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