Edgar Allan Poe ~5 hr read

The Black Cat, the fall of the House of Usher, the pit and the pendulum, the tell-tale heart, Poe's tales of terror and the perverse, in Baudelaire's celebrated French.

This 1857 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 a superb selection of Poe's horror and imagination, in the version that conquered France.

In its time

Published in 1857, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).