The first manned flight in a hot air balloon took place in Paris in 1873. Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in 1927. In what was science fiction at the time, and a model of expository writing, Edgar Allan Poe gives a very imaginative description of an aerial view of the earth from space in [...]
The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe Page 2 Page 1 This dread was not exactly a dread of physical evil—and yet I should be at a loss how otherwise to define it. I am almost ashamed to own—yes, even in this felon’s cell, I am almost ashamed to own—that the terror and horror [...]
The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet mad am I not—and very surely do I [...]
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this [...]
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