The Murders in the Rue Morgue

A Language-Illustrated Classic

By Edgar Allen Poe, Michael Clay Thompson

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Order Code: 8458
Class sets 10 or more paperback books: $12.00 each
Class set order code: 8458S

The Murders in the Rue Morgue is the first book in the Shadow Trilogy of language-illustrated classic novels.

Description

The MCT edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe is reproduced in its entirety and includes Michael’s “language illustrations”—close-ups of poetic techniques, four-level analyses of interesting grammar, and comments about writing strategies. Challenging vocabulary is defined at the bottom of each page.

Originally published in Graham’s Magazine in 1841, The Murders in the Rue Morgue is regarded as the first detective story—the story that created the genre. Michael writes in his introduction that reading this short story is to “witness the very point in intellectual history at which one of our great literary traditions began.” Poe used an array of literary devices in this book to achieve to maximum effect the horror and mystery of a murder by a non-human agent in nineteenth-century Paris.

Details

Curriculum
MCT Language Arts Curriculum
Level
Level 4
Strand
Literature
Series
The Shadow Trilogy
Ages
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Grades
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Subjects
MCT Language Arts, Novels
Formats
eBook
Pages
86
ISBN
978-0-88092-845-8
Order Code
8458