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The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales Edgar Allan Poe

The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales By Edgar Allan Poe

The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe


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The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales Summary

The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', the creeping insanity of 'The Tell-Tale Heart', the Gothic nightmare of 'The Masque of the Red Death', and the terrible doom of 'The Fall of the House of Usher'.

About Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston and orphaned at an early age. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay longer. After joining the Army and matriculating as a cadet, he started his literary career with the anonymous publication of Tamerlane and Other Poems, before working as a literary critic. His life was dotted with scandals, such as purposefully getting himself court-martialled to ensure dismissal from the Army, being discharged from his job at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twenty-one on the marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York City and Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two years after Virginia.

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GOR008653532
9780241256626
0241256623
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
20151203
320
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