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The Gold-Bug and Other Tales [UNABRIDGED] by Edgar Allan Poe
Reader Reviews 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Great Stories That Could Use Some Footnotes, August 1, 2002 Reviewer: Art Turner from Rockford, Illinois USA First of all, I think it goes without saying that the stories collected here are wonderful. "The Cask Of Amontillado", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Fall Of The House Of Usher" - it doesn't get much better (or more horrifying) than this. The price is also nice. A dollar fifty? What can you buy for a dollar fifty these days? My sole complaint regards the absence of footnotes. Take "Cask Of Amontillado", for example. It's hardly essential to know that "motley" is the garb of a jester or a clown (or that a "pipe" is a wine cask) in order to enjoy the story, but that information would have been nice to have nonetheless. In conclusion, this collection is a wonderful bargain, but if you have a little more money you may want to invest in an annotated collection of these tales.
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