The Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (With Audio)

Author: (American) Edgar Allan Poe
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, America. His parents were actors in a traveling theater troupe. At the age of three, Edgar Allan Poe lost his parents and became an orphan. He was later adopted by a wealthy family and grew up in a privileged environment. At the age of 20, his adoptive mother passed away. Edgar Allan Poe later had a conflict with his stepfather and cut off ties with him. At the age of 27, Edgar Allan Poe married his 14-year-old sister and worked as a journalist and editor before later earning a living by writing, barely making ends meet. In his impoverished life, his wife died of illness. Two years later, he also died of excessive alcohol consumption in a tavern. Edgar Allan Poe was an outstanding poet. His poetry collections "Tamerlane" and "Al Aaraaf" created extremely beautiful moods. Additionally, he wrote short mystery stories such as "The Purloined Letter," "The Gold Bug," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." This book includes two of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. "The Black Cat" is a strange and eerie story with a gloomy and mysterious tone. A very kind and gentle boy grows up to become an inescapable alcoholic, becoming rough and violent. A black cat that often stays with him becomes one of his victims. The cat loses an eye and is hung from a tree with a rope, and then it begins to take terrifying revenge on the man who destroyed it. In the end, the man kills his wife and is sentenced to hang. "The Purloined Letter" is a mystery story about tracking a stolen letter. Detective Dupin solves the theft case through reasoning and analysis, while "I," as Dupin's friend, explain the story alongside him, creating a unique structure for the article. Readers can get a glimpse of Dupin's intelligence from this. Sometimes, people fail to explain simple problems because they overcomplicate and twist the issue.