Extraordinary Tales- Bilingual Edition: English / French

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 MorgueThe Purloined LetterThe Gold BugThe Balloon-HoaxThe Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans PfaallMS. Found in a BottleA Descent into the MaelströmThe Facts in the Case of M. ValdemarMesmeric RevelationA Tale of the Ragged MountainsMorellaLigeiaMetzengersteinBonus (french only): Edgar Poe sa vie et ses oeuvres - Preface by Charles BaudelaireAbout 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