The Best of Poe: the Gold Bug, the Murders in the Rue Morgue, the Fall of the House of Usher,...
- ISBN-10
- 1686264437
- ISBN-13
- 9781686264436
- Series
- The Best of Poe
- Pages
- 130
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-08-15
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Author
- Edgar Poe
Description
In his short thriller stories Poe tries to show psychic side of a crime from the inside. He is not interested in social roots of the crime, but in unmotivated actions that go beyond normal behavior of a person in the society. Nevertheless, in a series of stories while describing the acts committed by characters under the influence of "contradiction demon" or "perversion demon", Poe puts in rational reasons. For example, the character from the story ''The Black Cat" realizes that his brain was poisoned with alcohol and, as a result, his mental health and temper were damages. But this reasoning is too plain and trivial for the thriller. Narrating on behalf of the criminal, Poe brings actions under the control of contradiction demon. All of the stories are full of the events which are at the same time rational and not, motivated and incredibly paradoxical.
Table of Contents:
- THE GOLD BUG
- THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
- THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
- THE BLACK CAT
- THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
- THE TELL-TALE HEART
- THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
- THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
