Extraordinary Tales - Bilingual Edition : English / French - Edgar Allan Poe / Charles Baudelaire - Collection of Fantastic and Horrific Short Stories |
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Translator:
| Baudelaire, Charles |
General Editor:
| Editions, Obscura |
Illustrator:
| Shaw, Byam |
Author:
| Poe, Edgar Allan |
ISBN: | 979-8-7457-1222-7 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2021 |
Publisher: | Independently Published
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $26.99 |
Book Description:
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In 1856,
Charles Baudelaire translated a selection of short stories written by
Edgar Allan Poe and brought them together in a book, under the title
Histoires Extraordinaires. This bilingual edition puts the original texts of
Edgar Allan Poe side by side with the translations of
Charles Baudelaire, in order to benefit from the styles of these two great names in literature. Table of Contents :
In 1856,
Charles Baudelaire translated a selection of short stories written by
Edgar Allan Poe and brought them together in a book, under the title
Histoires Extraordinaires. This bilingual edition puts the original texts of
Edgar Allan Poe side by side with the translations of
Charles Baudelaire, in order to benefit from the styles of these two great names in literature.
Table of Contents :
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- The Purloined Letter
- The Gold Bug
- The Balloon-Hoax
- The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
- MS. Found in a Bottle
- A Descent into the Maelström
- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
- Mesmeric Revelation
- A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
- Morella
- Ligeia
- Metzengerstein
- Bonus (french only) : Edgar Poe, sa vie et ses oeuvres - Preface by Charles Baudelaire
About this edition,
For this bilingual edition, the original texts and their translations have been aligned so that the corresponding paragraphs appear side by side. Line breaks can shift the beginning of a paragraph in order to better maintain a correspondence of content between the pages in the original English language, and the French translation.
Good reading,