Alberto García Ayerbe Book order (chronological)

Amateurdetektiv Auguste Dupin löst das „locked room mystery“ durch die außergewöhnlichen Fähigkeiten seines „analytical mind“. Es ist die Kombination von romantischer Horrorstory und kühl kalkulierendem Intellekt, die den unvergänglichen Reiz von Poes Erzählungen ausmacht. Viele Autoren haben diesem Ideal in der Folgezeit nachgeeifert, wenige haben es erreicht. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

This series provides reading and learning at four language levels through a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills, consolidate vocabulary, and offer personalized project work.

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favor of blurred boundaries between self and other, will and morality, identity and memory, Poe uses the Gothic to question the integrity of human existence. Indeed, Poe is less interested in solving puzzles or in moral retribution than in exposing the misconceptions that make things seem "mysterious" in the first place. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this critical edition selects twenty-four tales and places the most popular -- "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death'," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Purloined Letter" -- alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires.

Told in journal fragments that cannot provide any reliable perspective, Dracula is at the same time Romantic and modern. It unfolds the story of a Transylvanian Don Juan, the aristocratic vampire Count Dracula, who preys on damsels, and of the mission launched from a lunatic asylum to destroy him.

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