Tales of mystery and imagination
Title:
Tales of mystery and imagination
Author:
John, Roland, 1920-
ISBN:
9780582498051
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Harlow : Pearson Education, 2001.
Physical Description:
103 p. ; 20 cm.
Series:
Penguin readers. Level 5
General Note:
Originally published: London : Longman Fiction, 1993.
Contents:
William Wilson -- The Gold-Bug -- The Fall of the House of Usher -- The Red Death -- The Barrel of Amontillado -- The Whirlpool -- The Pit and the Pendulum -- The Stolen Letter -- Metzengerstein -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Abstract:
A man haunted by his own imagination, hidden writing that leads to buried treasure, a fisherman fighting for his life in a powerful whirlpool. In these stories by Edgar Allan Poe we meet people struggling with death. Others are strying to solve the darkest of mysteries. Which of them will succeed?