O knihe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales
This is the -Penguin English Library Edition- of -The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales- by Edgar Allan Poe. '...an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...' Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in -The Murders in the Rue Morgue-, the creeping insanity of -The Tell-Tale Heart-, the Gothic nightmare of -The Masque of the Red Death-, and the terrible doom of -The Fall of the House of Usher-. -The Penguin English Library- - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.