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"Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is undoubtedly one of the masters of the short story, a genre of which he pioneered. Famous for his horror and mystery stories, Poe knew how to give life and expression to the darkest and most turbulent regions of the human soul. Volume 2 contains The Raven, the Quote, The Fall of the House of Usher and 12 more stories"--

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is undoubtedly one of the masters of the short story, a genre of which he pioneered. Famous for his horror and mystery stories, Poe knew how to give life and expression to the darkest and most turbulent regions of the human soul. Extraordinary Tales brings together a selection of his best stories and several of his wonderful poems. The illustrations have been created expressly for this edition. Volume 1 contains the black cat, the gold beetle, Eleornora and 12 more stories.

The Otis family acquired the mansion despite the warning that it was inhabited by The Ghost of Canterville, which for centuries had sown terror and death among its inhabitants. How will the little Otis twins face an old and tired ghost? How will Mrs. Otis clean the stained bloodstains on the floor?

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed the nakedness of man faced with the absurd and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.