Berenice, Edgar Allan Poe
Berenice, Edgar Allan Poe
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Berenice
Classic Tales Edition

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: B.J. Harrison

Unabridged: 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Published: 04/04/2011

Synopsis

Edgar Allan Poe pieces together the mind of a monomaniac, who is obsessed with the simple and mundane. He discovers, too late, that obsessions, though simple and mundane, can lead you to do unspeakable things.

About Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, and literary critic who is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre and with contributing to the emerging science fiction genre. He began his literary career with the anonymous publication of a collection of his poems entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems. He then turned to writing prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming well known for his particular style of literary criticism. He served for a time on the staff of the New York Mirror, in which his poem "The Raven" was published. Poe's other well-known works include his stories "The Purloined Letter," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Mystery of Marie Roget."

Reviews

Goodreads review by oyshik

Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe It is a short horror story in which the narrator becomes obsessed with his cousin Berenice's teeth. And then he started preparing to marry her. But Berenice begins to deteriorate from an unnamed disease. This story is one of Poe's most violent. Indeed it's a creepy story.......more

Goodreads review by Glenn

Since there are a few dozen reviews already posted here, in the spirit of freshness I will compare Poe’s tale with a few other tales, each of these other tales picking up on a Berenice theme. OBSESSION In The Gaze by Jean Richepin, the narrator peers through the window of a cell at a madman, arms spre......more

Goodreads review by Peter

What a scary read. Egaeus, the narrator, talks about his relationship to his cousin Berenice. He lives the life of a scholar, prefers the night and is quite sickly. Berenice is the counterpart until she fall ill an decays day by day. There are plans of marriage. Egaeus is obsessed by her teeth. When......more

Goodreads review by Nayra.Hassan

لسنا صادقين تماما الا في احلامنا منتهي العدمية؛قصة مرعبة حقا غارقة في الامراض العجيبة و الافكار المقززة و الكره/الحب المريض و تعتبر رادع جيد جدا عن زواج الاقارب ادجار يتالق في ملعبه الابدي:قصص الدفن حياً لا انصح بها مطلقا لأطباء الأسنان القصة كاملة مترجمة في الجزء المخفي و هي احدي قصص مجموعة القط الاسو......more

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