The Gold-Bug and Other Stories

Name: The Gold-Bug and Other Stories
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9781802561197

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Read by: James Harrington
Language: English
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
ISBN: 9781802561197
Published: 19 October 2024
Imprint: Sovereign

Poe
Detective
mystery
adventure
crime
american
classic
romantic
story
tale

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Description

A cipher and a gold beetle open a treasure hunt, then Poe’s darker rooms close in: guilt that will not stop beating, a house that fails with its bloodline, Dupin’s first locked-room case. Spoken as mystery and horror when the mind is the real terrain.

Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) invented a climate of dread that American literature has never quite left. He shaped the modern detective story, perfected the haunted chamber, and wrote poems — The Raven above all — that lodge in the ear like a refrain. Beauty and terror share his rooms: obsessed lovers, guilty narrators, and reason that slides into nightmare. Poe lived hard and died young; the work outlasted the legend.

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Ebook · English · Sovereign9781910150788