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Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, The: Volume 1: The Pit & the Pendulum; The Facts in the Case; Of M. Valdemar; The Cask of Amontillardo
Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, The: Volume 1: The Pit & the Pendulum; The Facts in the Case; Of M. Valdemar; The Cask of Amontillardo
Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, The: Volume 1: The Pit & the Pendulum; The Facts in the Case; Of M. Valdemar; The Cask of Amontillardo
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Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, The: Volume 1: The Pit & the Pendulum; The Facts in the Case; Of M. Valdemar; The Cask of Amontillardo

Written by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by Bill Wallis

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Edgar Allan Poe, is considered the greatest of all writers of macabre stories, was born in Boston, Massachesetts, in 1809. His father, an Irish-American actor, died the following year, and his mother, an English actress, the year after, in Richmond, Virginia. John Allan, a wealthy Richmond merchant, adopted him. When he was 7, the Allans moved to England, sending him to school at Stoke Newington, at age 12 they moved back to Richmond. He wanted to become a writer, but John Allan wanted him to become a lawyer. He failed to finish courses at the University of Virginia and at West Point Military Academy, and John Allan disowned him. Struggling to live by his writing, he became an ill-paid magazine writer, and at 26 married Virginia, the daughter of his aunt, Mrs Clemm, aged 14. They were happy together, and while married he wrote much of his best work. But Virginia contracted tuberculosis, and worry over her illness and their poverty led him to drink heavily. After six years of marriage, she died. Suffering a complete breakdown, he was nursed back to health by Mrs Clemm. Returning to Richmond, he made a determined attempt to give up drinking. In 1849 he got engaged to a Richmond woman he had loved in his youth. Travelling north to collect Mrs Clemm to the wedding, he stopped off in Baltimore, Ohio. Found there lying drunk on a pavement, he was taken to hospital, but died a few hours later. His poems and short stories have influenced scores of writers. He invented the modern detective story, and his tales of terror are as chilling and powerful today as they have ever been. The stories in this volume are The Pit & The Pendulum, The Facts In The Case Of M Valdemar and The Cask Of Amontillardo. BILL WALLIS plays the title role in the BBC Radio comedy series WINSTON, and performed in the satirical series WEEK ENDING. On stage he appeared in the satirical West End show, MRS WILSON’s DIARY.
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Release dateJan 1, 2014
ISBN9781780000350
Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, The: Volume 1: The Pit & the Pendulum; The Facts in the Case; Of M. Valdemar; The Cask of Amontillardo
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Edgar Allan Poe

New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, with appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Department of Economics. He has also held a visiting professorship at MIT’s Media Lab. He has appeared on CNN and CNBC, and is a regular commentator on National Public Radio’s Marketplace. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and two children.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    To be honest, I only read about a third of this - all that was required for class. Spooky! But a little repetitive to read all in one sitting.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
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    Read selections from this for my coursera SF/F class. And... it's made me like Poe even less, somehow. I just found his prose completely stultifying -- possibly partly because I've read most of these stories before (if not all), partly because of the period it was written, and part of it must be something to do with Poe's style specifically, because I don't find all work of that era equally boring.Whatever, I'm glad to have read Poe so I have that background knowledge, but emphasis on have read, past tense. I can't see myself voluntarily reading more of his work.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Edgar Allan Poe was a depressive indolent drunk failure who married his 13-year-old cousin and spent his life composing purposefully obnoxious, repellant stories because "To be appreciated, you must be read," and he felt that the controversy would get him read. Which was astute of him.

    His Dupin stories are interesting if you're a Holmes fan, since Conan Doyle's debt to them is obvious, but they're nowhere near as good as the Holmes stories. Fucking orangutans, man. His horror is hit or miss. Pit and the Pendulum is truly disturbing; Fall of the House of Usher is a little boring.

    And he was just obsessed with being buried alive. Man, like all his stories are about that. Loss of Breath is my favorite, I think.

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