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Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Release : 2003
Genre : Detective and mystery stories, American
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Book Rating : 298/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Selected Tales by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book Selected Tales written by Edgar Allan Poe. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Release : 1987-03-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 808/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Selected Tales and Sketches by : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Download or read book Selected Tales and Sketches written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book was released on 1987-03-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.
Author : Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Release : 2009-07-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 581/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Selected Tales by : Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Download or read book Selected Tales written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. This book was released on 2009-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new translation offers a more representative selection of the Grimms' tales by including fables and morality tales as well as all the best known 'fairy' tales. It faithfully conveys the Grimms' own texts and provides a wealth of information about the origins of the stories, their literary evolution at the hands of the Grimms, with examples of earlier versions and stories that were omitted as being unsuitable for children.
Author : Brothers Grimm
Release : 1983-02-24
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 018/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Selected Tales by : Brothers Grimm
Download or read book Selected Tales written by Brothers Grimm. This book was released on 1983-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected Tales contains some of the most timeless and enchanting folk and fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, translated with an introduction by David Luke These folktales collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are among the most memorable stories in European culture - conjuring up a world of spells and bewitchment, outwitted villains and cruel stepmothers, animal bridegrooms and enchanted princesses. Tales such as 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Little Red Cape' and 'The Robber Bridegroom' depict the dangers lurking in dark forests, and others, including 'Briar-Rose' and 'Snow White' show young beauties punished by unforgiving sorceresses. Other tales include 'Thickasathumb', which portrays a childless young couple whose wish for a baby is granted in an unexpected way, while 'The Frog King' tells of a rash promise made by a haughty princess to share her bed with a frog, and a fortune is won in 'The Blue Lamp', when a soldier gains a kingdom with the help of a magic lamp. David Luke's vibrant translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing the key themes of the tales and the literary background of the Brothers Grimm. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Release : 2007-01-25
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 434/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Selected Tales by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book Selected Tales written by Edgar Allan Poe. This book was released on 2007-01-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new selection places the most popular -- `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.
