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  • FRANCISCO
  • ARIADNA
  • ALEX
  • ADRIAN
  • ORIOL

EDGAR ALLAN POE ( 1809-1849)
  1. Why have you chosen this writer?
  2. Did he have a happy life?
  3. Explain how the age he was living influenced on him
  4. What is novel?
  5. What is short story?
  6. He created the intelligent, infallible, isolated hero: name the different heros of their stories
  7. Main works to read and analyse
  8. Origins of the American detective novel with Edgar Allan Poe: 1841 The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  9. The first American master of the short story: Nathaniel Hawthone
  10. Late 19th c: Henry James in American and Joseph Conrad in England
  11. 20th c: James Joyce in Ireland
  12. In the 1920s, ´30s and 40’s : Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner
  13. Read a short story on line:
· THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
http://www.mysterynet.com/edgar-allan-poe/murders-in-the-rue-morgue-full/
http://poestories.com/read/murders
· BLACK CAT
http://poestories.com/read/blackcat
· GOLD BUG
http://poestories.com/read/goldbug

You can choose other stories from http://poestories.com/summaries.php