Edgar Allan Poe ~7 hr read

Murders in the Rue Morgue, a purloined letter, a gold-bug, a plunge into the maelström, Poe's tales of ratiocination and terror, in Baudelaire's celebrated French.

This 1856 volume gathers Edgar Allan Poe's stories in Charles Baudelaire's landmark translation, which made Poe a giant of French letters. Brilliant, macabre, foundational. Read it for the tales that invented the detective story and perfected the tale of terror, in the version that conquered France.

In its time

Published in 1856, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).