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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781402715150
ISBN: 1402715153
Label: Sterling
Manufacturer: Sterling
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 48
Publication Date: August 01, 2006
Publisher: Sterling
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Sales Rank: 701839
Studio: Sterling
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Product Description:
A popular spin-off from the Poetry for Young People series introduces children to America’s master of the spooky story: Edgar Allan Poe. Unabridged and fully illustrated, it’s the perfect collection to establish a life-long love of literature.
Edgar Allan Poe’s brooding tales of murder, madness, and revenge still grab today’s readers. Here are five of his finest, presented and fully annotated by Andrew Delbanco, a much-honored professor of humanities at Columbia University whom Time magazine called “America's Best Social Critic.” And throughout, chilling and evocative illustrations by renowned artist Gerard Dubois enhance the stories—among them a devilish, skull-like face to accompany “Masque of the Red Death” and an appropriately foreboding view of the House of Usher. The collection includes “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Oval Portrait”—and as always features an author biography, introductions to every story, and definitions of unfamiliar vocabulary.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Illustrations disappoint
This book runs to 80 pages and includes The Fall of the House of Usher; The Masque of the Red Death; The Tell Tale Heart; The Cask of Amontillado and The Oval Portrait. Choice of stories is good, if predictable, and the stories feature a running glossary which will be useful for adults and young people alike.
I have mixed feelings about the illustrations for the book - some are excellent - as with the cover design and that of the temporary entombment in the Fall of the House of Usher - whereas ... Read More
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