The Fall of the House of Usher - ( pt 1 of 6)

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Uploaded by on Sep 24, 2009

A reading with illustrations.

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  • It's so long. :|

  • @superproxylovee There are children's versions with more modern language. The illustrations are from the Great Illustrated Classics - stories are rewritten in simpler language. Some people enjoy hearing the archaic language - the antique words ad to the Gothic atmosphere Poe creates. You can enjoy the story without the masters words, but why not learn to appreciate the hard core original?

  • Poe was born in Boston. He was adopted by a Southern relative who he hated. When Poe died his Southern relatives wanted him to be forgotten. They were embarrassed by his strange tales from the mind of a madman.  It was French poets and writers who continued to read Poe and translate what he wrote. They rescued his work.

  • My drinking days are over, but....When I would listen to audio stories in the past while taking a drink I soom lost interested and focus and switched to music and dancing, especially with the dense old fashion language of Poe. But each to his own....may a cask of amontillado be yours

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  • thanks, I am reading this for school!

  • Beats reading it!

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  • Great (and prophetic!) storyteller and thinker.

    You tell the story finely and may I say that your voice resembles that of John Malkovich. 

  • @youngsaintsfan Me too, but i am a terrible reader, i read slow and usually have to read something twice to understand it, so i am going to listen to it instead. XD

  • I really like your reading! It gives the book and eerie feeling. ^^ Thanks for uploading. :)

  • Thank you for doing this, I'm studying it and found it hard to read it out loud in my female voice. Beautifully done.

  • you skip alot of words

  • I actually started to read Edgar A Poe when I was like 14 or so (during a time when I just love horror fiction, dunno why probably was at a stage). I think House of Usher was the first one of Poe's novel that gave me the chill, maybe it was easy to understand for me back then.

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