TITLE: Stories of Mistery and Imagination

NOVELIST: Edgar Alan Poe

PUBLISHING HOUSE: Longman

GRADE: 4

There are 7 stories.

You Are The Man

Time: Summer 1800 (the year isn't specified)

Setting: Rattleborough and places near Rattleborough

Toppic: The murder of Mr Shuttelworthy

Theme: The investigation of the murderer

Characters: Mr Barnabas Shuttelworthy (departed), Charley Goodfellow (friend of Shuttelworthy), writer, inhabitant

The Gold Bug

Time: October, the year isn't specified

Setting:Little island near Charleston in America

Toppic:The risearch of a treasure

Theme: Deciphering of a manuscript

Characters: writer, William Lengrand (friend), Jupiter (a servant of Lengrand)

The Stolen Letter

Time: The time isn't specified

Setting:Paris at tDupin and at the house of Lebrun

Toppic:The theft of a letter

Theme: The research of the letter

Characters: Writer, August Dupin (a friend of writer), Georges (headpoliceman), the princess, the countess, Mr Lebrun (importan man in the government)

The Murders In The Rue Morgue

Time: The time isn't specified

Setting:Paris in the Rue Morgue

Toppic: A murder

Theme: The investigation of the murderer

Characters: Writer, August Dupin, Madame Espanaye, Her Daughter, Henri Duval

Down Into The Maelstrom

Time: On the 18^th of July (the year isn't specified)

Setting: An island called Lofoten in North of Norway

Toppic:The adventure of the protagonist

Theme: His story

Characters:Writer, another man and his 2 brothers

The pit and the pendulum

Time: 150 years ago or more

Setting: A prison

Toppic: Imprisonment of the writer

Theme: The suffering of the protagonist

Characters:writer,French army

The Spectacles

Time: The time isn't specified

Setting:New York

Toppic:The discovery of the sell

Theme:The sell of the woman

Characters:Simpson, Mr Talbot, Madame Lalande