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dabbe
The Annotated Poe | Edgar Allan Poe
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#SundayFunday @BookmarkTavern

I'm planning on revisiting some gems of EA Poe's, my favorite spooky author. 🖤🐦‍⬛🖤

Leftcoastzen Can‘t go wrong there! 🦇👻 2mo
Mollyanna Perfect choice! The Tell Tale Heart is one of my favorite short stories. 2mo
BookmarkTavern A perfect choice for the season! Thanks for posting! 2mo
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dabbe @Leftcoastzen 🖤🧡🖤 2mo
dabbe @BookmarkTavern 🖤🧡🖤 2mo
dabbe @Mollyanna Mine, too! Have you ever seen this animated short? I believe it won an Oscar for best short animation back in 1953. It\'s fantastic. Here\'s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKOtXC4oyM 🖤🧡🖤 2mo
Mollyanna Oh, I haven‘t… I‘ll have to check it out! Thanks for sharing. 2mo
Mollyanna Yesterday, I had some time and watched the short. It was so good, and James Mason was the perfect choice for narrator. Thanks again for sharing 😊 (edited) 2mo
dabbe @Mollyanna He is spookily good, isn\'t he? I loved teaching Poe and using pop culture bits like this. The students loved it, too! 🧡🖤🧡 2mo
Mollyanna I bet this really helped engage the students into discussing Poe. What a great way to teach (wish mine had thought of that…). 😉 2mo
dabbe @Mollyanna There are so many fabulous clips re: Poe. I even played them “The Raven“ and “The Cask of Amontillado“ from the Alan Parsons Project album. They were riveted. That's what I miss about teaching. All the other crap--I mean stuff? Not at all. 😂 2mo
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dabbe
The Annotated Poe | Edgar Allan Poe
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#HauntedShelf
@PuddleJumper @Jadams89 #FrightClub
#BookRecommendations
#mystery
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Poe = mystery. Not much more to be said except that this annotated version is incredibly interesting with many insights into the time period, word usage, and the life of the maestro himself. Even The Alan Parsons Project knew what to title their album in homage to Poe (one of my favorite albums, btw). 🖤🐦‍⬛🖤

PageShifter I should read more by him 2mo
dabbe @PageShifter Oh, he\'s a top five favorite authors of ALL time for me. He never wrote a novel, though. Only poems, short stories, and essays. His short stories are creepy good! 🖤🧡🖤 2mo
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Aimeesue
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Book mail is the best mail! And finding a pristine HC copy of one of Maria Tatar‘s annotated books on Abe for $7 makes it even better. I don‘t buy a lot of physical books these days - too hard to hold and the font size, for some reason, won‘t get any bigger no matter how many times I stab the book with my index finger - but I will always buy an annotated Tatar. 🩷💛🩷

Ruthiella I sometimes get annoyed that I have to put a physical book down to look up a word. I have, legit, hovered my finger over the hard copy print for a split second before I realized that wasn‘t gonna work! 😂 2mo
jlhammar Beautiful! 2mo
Aimeesue @Ruthiella Yes! I‘ve done the same. 🤣 2mo
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dabbe
The Annotated Poe | Edgar Allan Poe
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#SundayFunday
@BookmarkTavern

I prefer 1st-person POV. Not only does it allow me to truly get inside the main character's head, but that narrator is usually unreliable, so it becomes a puzzle for me to figure out what is true and what isn't. That's why Poe and Doyle are my favorite authors: usually Poe's narrators are insane murderers and Watson doesn't always tell us everything re: Sherlock's cases. 🖤

BookmarkTavern An excellent point! Thanks for sharing! 3mo
dabbe @BookmarkTavern 🩶🖤🩶 3mo
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DebinHawaii
The Annotated Persuasion | Jane Austen, David M. Shapard
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#AboutABook

My number one choice for a #ClassicYouRead is Pride and Prejudice but Persuasion is a very close second. 💜

I don‘t own as many copies as I do P&P but here are some of the editions I own

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 😍 3mo
Leftcoastzen Nice post! 3mo
Eggs Beautiful editions 👍🏼 3mo
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Briscribes
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“I believe that life is a game, life is a cruel joke and that life is what happens when you are alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.” - Sam #NeilGaiman #AmericanGods

wanderinglynn Welcome to Litsy! 👋🏻 10mo
GondorGirl Annotating the annotated copy- that's dedication! 🥰 10mo
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DebinHawaii
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#DecemberDreams

My #MovieTime last night was watching the 2005 movie of P&P in honor of Jane Austin‘s birthday yesterday. Between now & New Year‘s weekend, I will watch my favorite adaptation, the 1995 BBC version & depending on my mood & reading month possibly fit in a reread before the book‘s publication date of January 28. ❤️📚🎥🍿💚

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 11mo
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BC_Dittemore
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Pickpick

There are parts of Frankenstein I wish were written differently; it‘s apparent that Shelley was an inexperienced writer. But the mythology, parable, metaphor she created is superb and still holds up after 205 years.

The text of this annotated version follows the 1818 edition with the 1832 edits, along with other drafts, within the annotations. Klinger does a fantastic job covering all the bases including popular culture, academia, and much more.

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Roary47
The New Annotated Dracula | Bram Stoker, Leslie S. Klinger
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Week 3 Game I did the best I could. 😅 #Scarathlon #BatBrigade 80 words @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks Fantastic job!! 🎉 👏🏼🦇🧡🖤 13mo
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dabbe
The Annotated Poe | Edgar Allan Poe
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#VolumesAndVocals
#Madness (Muse)
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Poe's main thematic idea in a number of his poems/short stories: madness/obsession with a young woman (usually a dead one, but still); this idea seems to jive with this song.

Eggs This is perfect! “Dead woman, but still” 🤣🤣 1y
dabbe @Eggs 🤩🤣😍 1y
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