The Raven (With Audio)
English Read Aloud EBook for Language Learning and Easy Reading
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Beschreibung des Verlags
English Word-by-word read aloud eBook.
Every Sinkronigo read-aloud eBook is both an eBook and an audiobook. While the story is narrated, the text is highlighted Word-by-word, allowing the reader to have a multi-sensorial experience.
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About the book:
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of a number of folk and classical references.
Poe claimed to have written the poem very logically and methodically, intending to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes, as he explained in his 1846 follow-up essay "The Philosophy of Composition". The poem was inspired in part by a talking raven in the novel “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty” by Charles Dickens. Poe borrows the complex rhythm and meter of Elizabeth Barrett's poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship", and makes use of internal rhyme as well as alliteration throughout.
"The Raven" was first attributed to Poe in print in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845. Its publication made Poe widely popular in his lifetime, although it did not bring him much financial success. The poem was soon reprinted, parodied, and illustrated. This internet version is illustrated by Gustave Doré’s woodcuts (1884). Critical opinion is divided as to the poem's literary status, but it nevertheless remains one of the most famous poems ever written. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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