The Fall of the House of Usher (Classics Illustrated) - Softcover

Poe, Edgar Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425121402 ISBN 13: 9780425121405

Publisher: Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S., 1991

Synopsis

A visitor to the gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.

About this title

Review:

"Poe's work as a whole is a series of haunting improvisations on themes from the macabre that are hard to categorise, dazzlingly original and posthumously influential on an extraordinary range of writers from Baudelaire and RL Stevenson to Yeats, Wilde and Borges" (Observer)

"His work continues to enthral. His greatest tales (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum) radiate a dark humour and mockery that strike an oddly modern note" (Sunday Times)

"If genius is an exceptional capacity for imaginative creation, Poe had it in spades" (Daily Mail)

"His reputation as a master of the grotesque and macabre has veiled the real cause of his fame: an astonishing mastery of language and literary technique which made Arthur Ransome, himself no mean story technician and a considerable literary critic, liken his stories to rare coloured goblets or fantastic metalwork" (Independent)

Book Description:

'The most original genius that America has produced' Alfred, Lord Tennyson

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0425121402
• ISBN 13: 9780425121405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48