The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe'... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...'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'.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
ISBN: | 9780141198972 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
Published date: | 26 Apr 2012 |
DEWEY: | 813.3 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Sales rank: | 16416 |
Number of pages: | 319 |
Weight: | 234g |
Height: | 197mm |
Width: | 130mm |
Spine width: | 16mm |