Edgar Allan Poe

A cura di P. Gorgerino e L. Palmer 
 Five famous and gripping tales by E. A. Poe - MS Found in a Bottle, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat - are contained in this reader.
 The book also includes in-depth inserts on Poe's biography, the origin and structure of the short story and its evolution and division into literary subgenres, in addition to themes related to the tales themselves. 
 
 Teacher's Resources available online: Answer Key - Audioscripts - Summing-up Activities
 
 Cinque celebri e avvincenti racconti di E. A. Poe – MS Found in a Bottle, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat – sono contenuti in questo reader.
 Accompagnano il libro letture di approfondimento sui luoghi in cui Poe visse, sull’origine e la struttura del racconto, sulla sua evoluzione e divisione in sottogeneri letterari, oltre che su tematiche inerenti ai racconti stessi.

MS Found in a Bottle

Extension: The Baltimore Poe House and Museum

The Pit and the Pendulum

Extension: Short Stories

The Masque of the Red Death

Extension: Detective Stories and Horror Stories

The Tell-Tale Heart

Extension: The Beliefs in the Evil Eye

The Black Cat

Extension: Cats and Beliefs

Summing-up activities

Glossary

SUMMING-UP ACTIVITIES 1 Edgar Allan Poe Crossword Puzzle 82 

83 3 The lower part of the pendulum was made of this metal. 6 Animal in the pit. 8 The ship sailed from this port. 10 As it was in the dungeon. 11 Edgar Allan Poe s initials. 12 The eye was like this. 16 It was rough and foamy. 17 The name of the Prince. 18 Such was the phantom ship. 19 The name of the cat. 20 The woman died without one. 21 Those consulted by the captain were very old. 27 It was held in the castle. 33 What the crew and the captain were like. 34 What the character did to his cat. 35 The character was condemned by it. 36 The well in the dungeon. 37 The colour of the cat. 38 There is a lot of it in Poe s short stories. Across 41 It weighed about four hundred tons. 44 It was on both sides of the phantom ship. 45 All the sailors. 46 Poe s favourite literary genre. 49 The people who died had it on their body. 51 He used old scientific instruments and charts. 53 It stopped playing when they heard the chiming of the pendulum. 54 She was the victim of her husband s madness. 55 The newcomer wore a red one. 56 The document the captain was reading was signed by one. 57 The colour of one of the rooms in the castle. 58 The caretaker committed it. 59 He buried his wife there. 60 The number of the rooms in the castle. 61 After drinking water, he fell into a deep one. 1 The character had a strange one when he saw the captain and the crew. 2 When the character took to drinking he became so. 4 The character and his wife had one, besides a lot of other pets. 5 He was addicted to it. 7 He walked all around it. 9 It was red in the story. 13 The colour of the seventh room. 14 Together with the pit in the title. 15 He killed his wife with it. 16 The house caught it and was destroyed. 18 So was the character when the rats bit the strap. 22 The time the red death appeared. 23 The captain thought there was no danger and decided to do it. 24 The brush wrote this word on the sail. 25 The circles the ship was whirling in were like this. 26 One of the materials of the pendulum. Down 28 He loved them very much. 29 The crew looked like those of past centuries. 30 The cat had its image on the breast. 31 The crew lay on it. 32 Where the Inquisition was from, in the story. 39 The type of windows in the ballrooms. 40 The ship descended from the swell. 41 That of the window matched with that of The draperies and the furniture. 42 The Prince decided to lock himself up there with his friends. 43 Subject of many of Poe s short stories. 46 Type of alcoholic drink that was in the container the cat was sitting on. 47 There was a lot of it in the sea. 48 The character opened it carefully. 50 The captain said some words in a foreign language in a low one. 52 He decided to do so not to be seen. 

Scopri cinque racconti di E.A. Poe: MS Found in a Bottle, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat.

The Black Cat Collana RAINBOWS

Level B1 • Pre-Intermediate - Collana RAINBOWS

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