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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Penguin Classics)
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Penguin Classics) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3
EAN: 9780141439815
ISBN: 0141439815
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 544
Publication Date: 2003-04-29
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Product Release Date: 2003-04-29
Studio: Penguin Classics
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3
EAN: 9780141439815
ISBN: 0141439815
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 544
Publication Date: 2003-04-29
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Product Release Date: 2003-04-29
Studio: Penguin Classics
Editorial Review of The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Penguin Classics)
Edited with an Introduction by David Galloway.
Customer Reviews of The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Penguin Classics)
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Review Summary: The TRUE king of Horror!
Review: I got this book as a gift for my Birth Day. I loved Edgar Allan Poe, his writings, poetry, essays, everything. I first heard The Raven in my [...] class, than heard The Cask of Amontillado in my [...] class. I than fully fell-in-love with this Poet! I also went out and picked up Young Edgar Allan Poe, and read it, exploring his life from a small child in beautiful detail to his death. If you haven't read any of Edgar Allan Poe's writings yet, please do so. Now...
At first when you read some of his writings, you get washed away by the old-fashioned literature, to the insanity of his mind (which isn't so, mind you). I had to re-read The Masque of the Red Death twice before I fully comprehended just what happened. I relieved in the story: The Cask of Amontillado and The Pit and the Pendulum, struggled through The Bells, read my heart out in The Raven, raced through The Tell-Tale Heart and read curiously at The Man of the Crowd. This is truly the king of horror and insanity at it's best! Drop Stephen King for just a little while and read Poe, you won't regret it!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Indispensible edition!! A fine collection.
Review: I've found this particular edition of Poe's (albiet incomplete) collected works to be the best and most accurate blend possible of his short fiction, poetry, and most important prose. The annotations and background information are also extremely helpful unlike some works that do not translate the Latin, for example. MOST IMPORTANTLY I've found this work to contain the most perfect editions of his poetry, as opposed to other collected works I've owned that have unusual deviances, such as "monody compels" (this ed.) vs "melody compels" of another edition. This has indeed become a faithful companion and my particular copy has become well-worn! I would suggest obtaining as a supplement a seperate edition of Poe's complete short stories and possibly also an edition of his collected prose, although this volume contains his perhaps most important work "The American Drama" anyway. Cheers, hope this helps!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: i THOUGHT THIS BOOJK WAS VERY EXCITING .
Review: THIS BOOK IS VERY GOOD AND KEPT MY INTEREST THROUGH OUT THE WHOLE TIME I READ IT.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: It gets better...
Review: Reading "The Fall of the House of Usher" for the first time it seems quite complicated due to both vocabulary and interpretation. Reading it again you notice how this difficult yet discriptive and varied vocabulary together with his narrative style capture you and set you right there next to the narrator to see what he saw and feel what he felt. The self-realizing prophecy of R.Usher makes you, too, fight with fear, but from a safe distance.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Old English Gothic style
Review: It is a good story. There are a lot of descriptions which clearly shows us the environment in which the story takes place. We liked the way the story was told, the old English Gothic style. We knew from the beginning that something mysterious was to happen, so through the whole story we were exited to find out what happens next and we tried to imagine what would happen. At the end of the story we had a lot of questions; what did really happen? We like the fact that the reader is still working with the text though the story is over.
Review Summary: The TRUE king of Horror!
Review: I got this book as a gift for my Birth Day. I loved Edgar Allan Poe, his writings, poetry, essays, everything. I first heard The Raven in my [...] class, than heard The Cask of Amontillado in my [...] class. I than fully fell-in-love with this Poet! I also went out and picked up Young Edgar Allan Poe, and read it, exploring his life from a small child in beautiful detail to his death. If you haven't read any of Edgar Allan Poe's writings yet, please do so. Now...
At first when you read some of his writings, you get washed away by the old-fashioned literature, to the insanity of his mind (which isn't so, mind you). I had to re-read The Masque of the Red Death twice before I fully comprehended just what happened. I relieved in the story: The Cask of Amontillado and The Pit and the Pendulum, struggled through The Bells, read my heart out in The Raven, raced through The Tell-Tale Heart and read curiously at The Man of the Crowd. This is truly the king of horror and insanity at it's best! Drop Stephen King for just a little while and read Poe, you won't regret it!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Indispensible edition!! A fine collection.
Review: I've found this particular edition of Poe's (albiet incomplete) collected works to be the best and most accurate blend possible of his short fiction, poetry, and most important prose. The annotations and background information are also extremely helpful unlike some works that do not translate the Latin, for example. MOST IMPORTANTLY I've found this work to contain the most perfect editions of his poetry, as opposed to other collected works I've owned that have unusual deviances, such as "monody compels" (this ed.) vs "melody compels" of another edition. This has indeed become a faithful companion and my particular copy has become well-worn! I would suggest obtaining as a supplement a seperate edition of Poe's complete short stories and possibly also an edition of his collected prose, although this volume contains his perhaps most important work "The American Drama" anyway. Cheers, hope this helps!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: i THOUGHT THIS BOOJK WAS VERY EXCITING .
Review: THIS BOOK IS VERY GOOD AND KEPT MY INTEREST THROUGH OUT THE WHOLE TIME I READ IT.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: It gets better...
Review: Reading "The Fall of the House of Usher" for the first time it seems quite complicated due to both vocabulary and interpretation. Reading it again you notice how this difficult yet discriptive and varied vocabulary together with his narrative style capture you and set you right there next to the narrator to see what he saw and feel what he felt. The self-realizing prophecy of R.Usher makes you, too, fight with fear, but from a safe distance.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Old English Gothic style
Review: It is a good story. There are a lot of descriptions which clearly shows us the environment in which the story takes place. We liked the way the story was told, the old English Gothic style. We knew from the beginning that something mysterious was to happen, so through the whole story we were exited to find out what happens next and we tried to imagine what would happen. At the end of the story we had a lot of questions; what did really happen? We like the fact that the reader is still working with the text though the story is over.