Book: Extraordinary Narrations – Edgar Allan Poe
I started this book since March, and I just finished it the last week.
It contains the following short stories:
- Eleonora
- Metzengerstein
- The Imp of the Perverse
- The Black Cat
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- William Wilson
- The Purloined Letter
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Mystery of Marie RogĂȘt
- The Gold-Bug
- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Cask of Amontillado
If you ask me which one I liked the most, I’d say: The pit and the Pendulum.
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This is actually one of my favorite books, The Pit and the Pendulum is great, but I also like The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Gold Bug. There’s a story on this list, “Metzengerstein” I don’t recognize, perhaps it wasn’t on the version I read. I also don’t see “MS. Found in a Bottle” on your list. It’s also one of my favorite short stories by Poe, it’s pretty disturbing, you can find it here http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/MS._Found_in_a_Bottle
Maybe the versions we read are different.
And yes, The Gold Bug would be my second choice; when I was reading it, I knew immediately where the Da Vinci code came from.
Thanks for the recommendation.