Penguin readers. Level 3.

There are five stories in this book. The Fall of the House of Usher and The Barrel of Amontillado are stories of madness. The Maelstrom describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean. And in The Murders of the Rue Morgue and The Stolen Letter, Poe's famous Parisian detective, C. Auguste Dupin is introduced

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Decoding demand: 88 (very high) Semantic demand: 93 (very high) Syntactic demand: 74 (high) Structure demand: 83 (very high)

Fall of the House of Usher -- Maelstrom -- Barrel of Amontillado -- Murders in the Rue Morgue -- Stolen letter