Showing posts with label Edgar Allan Poe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edgar Allan Poe. Show all posts

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Title: Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Series: 洋販ラダーシリーズLevel 3 YL 3.0-4.5
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan エドガー・アラン・ポー 著
Genre: HR
YL:
Headwords: 1600
Total Word Count: 16,600
Rating:


Summary:

明日絞首刑となる男が自らの犯罪を告白する『黒猫』、同姓同名の男に脅かされ、破滅の道をたどる『ウィリアム・ウィルソン』、そして黄金色の不思議な甲虫を手がかりに伝説の財宝を見つけ出す『黄金虫』。怪奇小説の巨匠ポーの代表作3篇を収録。

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Series: Penguin Readers Level 3 (PGR3) YL 3.2~3.8
Title: The Black Cat and Other Stories
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
Genre: HR
YL: 3.2-3.4
Headwords: 1200
Total Word Count: 9,000
Rating: ***

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Summary: Four short stories of murder and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe wrote about terrible people who lead strange lives. If you have a black cat yourself, watch out!

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 3 (PGR3) YL 3.2~3.8
Title: Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
Genre: CS
YL: 3.4-3.6
Headwords: 1200
Total Word Count: 11,000
Rating: ****

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Summary: There are five stories in this book. "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Barrel of Amontillado" are stories of madness; "The Maelstrom" describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in "The Murders of the Rue Morgue" and "The Stolen Letter" meet C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's famous Parisian detective.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 5 (PGR5) YL 5.0~6.0
Title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
Genre: AT
YL: 5.0-6.0
Headwords: 2300
Total Word Count: 29,000
Rating: ****

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Summary: A man is haunted by his own imagination, hidden writing that leads to buried treasure, a fisherman fighting for his life in a powerful whirlpool. In these short stories by Edgar Allan Poe we meet people struggling with death. Others are trying to solve the darkest of mysteries. Which of them will succeed?

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