The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
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Publisher Description
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this volume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of random "opinions" on fancy and the imagination, music and poetry, intuition and sundry other topics.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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After Brenda accidentally leaves her blue teddy bear, Pete, on the bus, her mother phones the lost and found, but to no avail. Brenda mopes, but three days later, she gets a surprise: a postcard from Pete, sent from London. ``He must have gotten on a different bus,'' says Brenda's mother. Although Brenda misses Pete, she looks forward to his correspondence, which issues from such cities as Paris, Moscow and Nairobi and is always affectionately signed ``Love, Your Bear Pete.'' And never fear--a happy reunion closes the book, although it doesn't solve the mystery of the teddy bear's adventures. Hurt-Newton, making her picture book debut, works in a lively palette of acrylics; she contrasts scenes of Brenda at home--playing with a dog, lying on her bed to read, seated at the breakfast table--with postcards and spreads depicting Pete's international destinations. Choppy black outlines give Hurt-Newton's work the look of block prints, and overlapping images add constant variety. Enterprising kids can find a casual geography lesson in Sheldon's ( The Whales' Song ) adventuresome and appealingly enigmatic tale. Ages 3-up.
