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adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
It's difficult to write an accurate review of Edgar Allan Poe's work -- it's very good, very lyrical, exquisitely haunting, at turns crushingly dull and completely electrifying, with many of the same dark prejudices as his contemporaries. So I will have to nitpick this collection itself. There are some truly bizarre choices at inclusion and placement here. Why included The Mystery of Marie Roget but not The Purloined Letter? Why include some of these stories at all? It is riddled with typographical and transcription errors -- many words are pushed together, words appear hyphenated where they would originally be only done so as line breaks, and the word "eyes" is often written as "eves". All said, however, I am pleased to have read it and even more pleased to have it on my shelf.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, Animal death, Suicide, Death, Racism, Murder, and Animal cruelty
Minor: Rape
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