The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays and Reviews

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Summary: Indispensible edition!! A fine collection.
Review: I've found this particular edition of Poe's (albiet incomplete) collected works to be the best and most accurate blend possible of his short fiction, poetry, and most important prose. The annotations and background information are also extremely helpful unlike some works that do not translate the Latin, for example. MOST IMPORTANTLY I've found this work to contain the most perfect editions of his poetry, as opposed to other collected works I've owned that have unusual deviances, such as "monody compels" (this ed.) vs "melody compels" of another edition. This has indeed become a faithful companion and my particular copy has become well-worn! I would suggest obtaining as a supplement a seperate edition of Poe's complete short stories and possibly also an edition of his collected prose, although this volume contains his perhaps most important work "The American Drama" anyway. Cheers, hope this helps!

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Summary: Excellent Poe starter
Review: In an ocean of other Poe collections and publications, this collection features a unique and appealing selection of Poe's finest creations. From the eerie mystery of the House of Usher to the questionable Gold Bug, Poe's eerie intellect is evident throughout.

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Summary: Old English Gothic style
Review: It is a good story. There are a lot of descriptions which clearly shows us the environment in which the story takes place. We liked the way the story was told, the old English Gothic style. We knew from the beginning that something mysterious was to happen, so through the whole story we were exited to find out what happens next and we tried to imagine what would happen. At the end of the story we had a lot of questions; what did really happen? We like the fact that the reader is still working with the text though the story is over.

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Summary: It gets better...
Review: Reading "The Fall of the House of Usher" for the first time it seems quite complicated due to both vocabulary and interpretation. Reading it again you notice how this difficult yet discriptive and varied vocabulary together with his narrative style capture you and set you right there next to the narrator to see what he saw and feel what he felt. The self-realizing prophecy of R.Usher makes you, too, fight with fear, but from a safe distance.

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Summary: It gets better...
Review: Reading "The Fall of the House of Usher" for the first time it seems quite complicated due to both vocabulary and interpretation. Reading it again you notice how this difficult yet discriptive and varied vocabulary together with his narrative style capture you and set you right there next to the narrator to see what he saw and feel what he felt. The self-realizing prophecy of R.Usher makes you, too, fight with fear, but from a safe distance.

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Summary: i THOUGHT THIS BOOJK WAS VERY EXCITING .
Review: THIS BOOK IS VERY GOOD AND KEPT MY INTEREST THROUGH OUT THE WHOLE TIME I READ IT.

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Summary: Lord of the flies
Review: This book is very good it is about children deserted on an inhabited island.It is all about jealousy,leadership and hate.
It is good because it is quite scary and when they go crazy they go crazy. The ending ! marvelous i haven't seen a better book yet wich has a better ending than this book.I also think that it would be quite fun being deserted on an island but when you read this book you won't want to be left on an island ever.

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Summary: Delve into the mind of a madman!
Review: This story was disjointed, abstract, distrubing and confusing to the point that it hurt my head... yet I want to read it again. Although I'm not sure I understood everthing that happened, you get so caught up in the the agony of the characters insanity, one must read on to try to make sense of it. This is a book that you will read over and over to try and understand and just when you think you've got it... you will have doubt enough to read it once again!