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Bezig met laden... The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Storiesdoor Edgar Allan Poe
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Edgar Allan Poe may be one of the original Spooky Boys, but I honestly still can’t stand the vast majority of his writing… That being said, I still had to read this book, because I wasn’t about to miss out on an edition illustrated by Gris Grimly. Integrated throughout Poe’s text, Grimly illuminates the four stories in this volume by setting the pre-Victorian-esque scene, envisioning a myriad cast of weirdos, and ensuring that the tone of the stories is heightened through careful panelling. Each story contains its own style, some being closed in by heavy border work that brings to mind the enclosing floorboards beneath which a buried heart lies, others focusing on a portrait-driven aesthetic, and then others which bring to mind scientific anatomy textbooks - all carefully showcasing the range of Grimly’s unique artistic stylings. Compared to other illustrators, Grimly’s palette is of a lighter tone (utilising a dusty range of browns, rusts, and grey-blues), but still brings to mind the quiet horror of Poe’s writing through characterization and an emphasis on oddity. This is a careful departure from most horror-tinged tomes which prefer to soak their pages in the depths of bloody reds and darkest blacks, and honestly I think it works rather well for the handful of Poe’s stories contained herein. None of them are particularly bloody, and even while some have nocturnal scenes, the focus shifts to the characters rather than the scenery with Grimly’s treatment - a horror of the mind’s realism and mundanity, if you will. ( ) Student edition: 0590087622 Teacher's edition: 0590090526 Scholastic Book Services "Master Storyteller" editions edited by Sara Sheldon Contents (Student edition): Biographical Note Stories: The Tell-Tale Heart The Murders in the Rue Morgue Ms. Found in a Bottle The Cask of Amontillado The Fall of the House of Usher The Pit and the Pendulum Ligeia The Mask of the Red Death A Descent into the Maelstrom The Imp of the Perverse Poems: To Helen Eldorado The Raven Sonnet - To Science Ulalume The Bells Annabel Lee A Selective Bibliography geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Our narrator plots to murder an old man, though the narrator states that he loves the old man, and hates only his evil pale blue eye. The narrator insists that his careful precision in committing the murder shows that he cannot possibly be insane. For seven nights, the narrator opens the door of the old man's room, in order to shine a sliver of light onto the evil eye. However, the old man's vulture eye is always closed, making it impossible to do the work. The book also features other stories including: A Predicament, Mystification, Diddling, The Angel of the Odd, Loss of Breath. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.3Literature English (North America) American fiction Middle 19th Century 1830-1861LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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