Product Description: The particulars furnished below may be relied on as authentic and accurate in every respect, as, with a slight exception, they are copied verbatim from the joint diaries of Mr. Monck Mason and Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, to whose politeness our agent is also indebted for much verbal information respecting the balloon itself, its construction, and other matters of interest...read more

Product Description: "The Balloon-Hoax" is the title used in collections and anthologies of a newspaper article written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844. Originally presented as a true story, it detailed European Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days in a gas balloon...read more

Product Description: "THE BALLOON. "Two very decided failures, of late—those of Mr. Henson and Sir George Cayley—had much weakened the public interest in the subject of aerial navigation. Mr. Henson's scheme (which at first was considered very feasible even by men of science,) was founded upon the principle of an inclined plane, started from an eminence by an extrinsic force, applied and continued by the revolution of impinging vanes, in form and number resembling the vanes of a windmill...read more

Product Description: Many of the stories and poems believed to be written during Poe's years in Baltimore, some for the first time on CD. Hear his first ever published story (MS Found in a Bottle), his own personal favorite (Ligeia), and the original version of a story considered so gruesome Poe himself was compelled to edit it (Berenice)...read more

Product Description: En plenos carnavales de alguna ciudad italiana del siglo XIX, Montresor busca a Fortunato con ánimo de vengarse de una pasada humillación. Al hallarlo ebrio, le resulta fácil convencerlo de que lo acompañe a su palazzo con el pretexto de darle a probar un nuevo vino...read more

Product Description: Montresor raconte l'histoire de la nuit où il a tiré vengeance d'une insulte proférée à son égard par Fortunato, un noble de sa connaissance. Rencontrant Fortunato lors du Carnaval alors que l'homme est ivre et porte un bonnet de bouffon, Montresor l'attire dans un piège en prétendant avoir reçu une barrique d'amontillado et demandant son opinion d'expert pour s'assurer de son origine...read more

Product Description: Egaeus, se prepara para casarse con su prima, Berenice. El sufre extraños ataques de ensimismamiento durante los cuales parece aislarse por completo del mundo exterior. Berenice empieza a deteriorarse debido a una enfermedad desconocida, hasta que la única parte de su cuerpo que parece permanecer viva son sus bonitos dientes, con los cuales Egaeus empieza a obsesionarse...read more

Product Description: MISERY is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch—as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow! How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace, a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born...read more

Product Description: This anthology of short stories by nineteenth-century and very early twentieth-century include both well-known authors Poe, Twain, O. Henry, Holmes, Harte, etc.and those largely unknown today. This volume offers those readers who take pride in having their own taste and criteria for what is enjoyable the opportunity to enjoy these forgotten treasures...read more

Product Description: This anthology of unabridged short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included are Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, Mermaids by Louisa May Alcott, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, and The Gift of the Magi by O...read more

Product Description: Few authors’ names conjure up such an air of ghoulish terror as that of Edgar Allan Poe. Although best known for his classic gothic horror tales such as "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," or "The Premature Burial," he also wrote mystery thrillers like "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" or "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and curious stories like "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether...read more

Product Description: 3 Unabridged Books on 10 Cassettes • Frankenstein by Mary Shelly • The Edgar Allan Poe Collection by Edgar Allan Poe • Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson The Best of Gothic Horror is a compilation that includes some of the most famous gothic-horror writing in history...read more

You'll be kept in suspense with these four Edgar Allan Poe short stories! The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Murders in the Rue Morgue.These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. Saddleback's Illustrated Classics. These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics.

Product Description: Is it possible to capture the genius that was Edgar Allan Poe in a single volume? To say that his work was unique is understating the fact, as much as it is to suggest that he simply lived an interesting life. Each reader, to be certain, will have their own singular favorite, chosen from the volumes of prose and poetry written during the author s all too short life...read more

Product Description: Have you read the 50 best short stories of all time? In 1914, a critical moment in literature, The New York Times asked the most highly regarded authors of the day to name the best short story in the English language. Many of their responses have maintained consistent fame through time...read more