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.
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White fang
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"Life is hard and dangerous for both people and animals in the frozen Canadian North. For a wolf like White Fang it is a continuous fight to find food - a fight in which many animals die. When White Fang meets the people of the North - first Indians and then White Men - he learns to live with them like a dog. But some men are cruel to their dogs and others are kind. Will White Fang's life be any easier now?" --Back cover
Oxford Bookworms Library - 2: The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories. Reader
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READ BY DAVID SOUL Duration: 2 hours 28 minutes Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe’s full-blooded Gothic style influenced generations of writers, filmmakers and musicians, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Baudelaire to Roger Corman and Lou Reed. The five tales collected here range from the famous to the obscure, but each displays Poe's unique sense of the macabre and his love for the baroque. A victim of the Inquisition finds himself in a nightmarish torture chamber, a castle is besieged by plague, a man becomes obsessed by the evil eye of his fellow lodger, a mesmerist suspends a man's life at the point of death and a jester takes his revenge on his cruel employers.
Dracula
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Jonathan Harker's visit to mysterious Count Dracula's eerie castle in Transylvania is just the start of a insidious plan to send vampires to England.
Tu tío arqueólogo te propone viajar con él este verano. Las opciones son de la selva sudamericana a una mina en África, de las galerías de una tumba egipcia a un volcán en medio de Camboya. ¿En cuál de esos destinos se esconde el mayor de los tesoros? Si quieres descubrirlo, haz la maleta y pasa página. •Llega hasta unas minas escalando un volcán en la página 14 o atravesando un lago lleno de cocodrilos en la página 22. •Dentro de la Gran Pirámide del Sol puedes conseguir la eterna juventud en la página 12 o la riqueza infinita en la 20. •Intenta detener a unos ladrones de tesoros tú solo en la página 63 o con la ayuda de un elefante en la página 107.