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The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales: Edgar Allan Poe (The Penguin English Library) (editie 2012)

door Edgar Allan Poe (Autor)

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First published in an 1841 edition of Graham's Magazine, The Murders in the Rue Morgue is often cited as the first modern detective story. The first of three stories to center around C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's fictional detective, The Murders in the Rue Morgue involves Dupin's investigation of two women's murders. Establishing many of the tropes that would later become common to detective fiction, the story begins with an explanation of Dupin's theory of ratiocination, a concept which greatly influenced the creation of detective fiction itself and other great detectives like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.… (meer)

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Titel:	The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales: Edgar Allan Poe (The Penguin English Library)
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Info:	Penguin Classics (2012), Edition: UK ed., 336 pages
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Although it is reasonable in itself, it is primarily interesting as a historical record. Supposedly the first detective story in modern literature, it comes across as a proto Sherlock Holmes: the clever, logical amateur sleuth, the loyal but dim sidekick, the bumbling policeman, the amazing resolution. Having said that, it is lacking in depth and subtlety. it also doesn't carry much of the gothic macabre that I was expecting from Poe. 20 June 2017. (

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A mother and daughter are bafflingly and brutally murdered inside a locked room on Rue Morgue, and C. Auguste Dupin must apply his fine detective skills to piece together the mystery. Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales.

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George Bernard Shaw called him, 'the finest of finest of artists'; but Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) died alone in pain and poverty when he was only forty. Almost his last words were: 'I wish to God someone would blow my damned brains out.' - it is not difficult to see why some of his best-remembered stories are grotesque and macabre.

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This is a collection of 19 of Poe's stories, do not combine with different collections.
It contains:
Manuscript Found in a Bottle; Ligeia; The Man That Was Used Up; The Fall of the House of Usher; William Wilson; The Man of the Crowd; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; A Descent Into the Maelstrom; Eleonora; The Oval Portrait; The Masque of the Red Death; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Gold-Bug; The Black Cat; The Purloined Letter; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Cask of Amontillado; Hop-Frog; and an essay about Poe by DH Lawrence.

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First published in an 1841 edition of Graham's Magazine, The Murders in the Rue Morgue is often cited as the first modern detective story. The first of three stories to center around C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's fictional detective, The Murders in the Rue Morgue involves Dupin's investigation of two women's murders. Establishing many of the tropes that would later become common to detective fiction, the story begins with an explanation of Dupin's theory of ratiocination, a concept which greatly influenced the creation of detective fiction itself and other great detectives like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.

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