For those who like audiobooks

   If you like audio books or you are simply busy and don't have enough time to read the story, then you can listen to it! I hope you will enjoy it))

My expectations

      The story impressed me greatly! As I supposed the plot of this story will be connected with supernatural things. I think it is one of the best stories written by Edgar Allan Poe, whose stories I like very much.
      Generally I thought that the story will be about ghosts, who live in a very old house, but everything appeared much more interesting for me, because I didn't thought about such an ending. The story has a supernatural colouring, but there are no ghosts who are wandering about the house and trying to scare people who live or who came in the house.
      If you want to catch the main idea what I am talking about, then you can watch the videos below. I hope you will enjoy them=)

 

 

The writer and the plot

     Edgar Allan Poe is an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic. He is best known for different types of stories. Edgar Allan Poe is generally considered the  inventor of the detective fiction genre. 

     He made a great contribution into such literary genre as science fiction. This writer is considered to be the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone.

        Edgar Allan Poe's contribution in literature is great. His most famous tales are: 

   "The Black Cat"

   "The Fall of the House of Usher"

                                                                                                  "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

                                                                                                        "The Pit and the Pendulum"

Of course he acted as a poet and his most famous poems are:

• "The Raven"

•  "Eldorado"

• "Tamerlane"

   "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a story which tells about an old mansion. Like so many of Poe's stories, the setting here is inside a closed environment and the narrator of the story is unknown.The main characters are Roderick Usher and his twin sister Madeline.

     They both are ill and are going to die. Roderick suffers from hyper-sensitivity to light, sound, taste, and tactile sensations and his sister suffers from a sickness involving seizures. The story is told by a narrator who came to this house to stay for some time with Roderick and Madeline. The narrator tries to entertain Roderick with the help of music, literature and art. But his sister dies first. The narrator helps to burry Madeline in the family vaults, which was underneath the mansion. 

       So, as they both were twins there was some connection between them. A week later while the two friends were reading at night they heard the voice which repeated every word they read. It was Madeline. Roderick was scared to death, because he thought that they burried his sister alive and that she came to take him with her. Of course they both died. The narrator ran outside and saw how the house cracked into two parts and then fell down.