The Tell-Tale Heart in Baudelaire's French and in English
A man swears he is not mad. To prove it, he tells you how calmly he planned the murder of the old man he lived with, and how he hid the body under the floor. Then the police arrive, and he starts to hear a sound.
The French is by Charles Baudelaire, the poet whose translations made Poe famous in France. It is matched to the English sentence by sentence. Baudelaire's words are kept; old spellings such as "coeur" and "roide" are printed the modern way.
What's in the book
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The full story. In the PDF each English passage is followed by its French translation. In the EPUB they sit side by side, English on the left.
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Characters, background and notes, including a short note on the passé simple, the literary past tense Baudelaire tells the story in.
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A Book Frequency Dictionary of the 494 French nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the story, most frequent first, with part of speech, IPA pronunciation and English meaning.
Who it's for
Learners who want to finish a whole story in French in one evening, and readers who want to see how Baudelaire handled Poe.
Details
- Edgar Allan Poe, translated by Charles Baudelaire
- French-English edition, 2026, about 28 pages (6 x 9 inch PDF)
- E-book: EPUB, plus a PDF in two page sizes (6 x 9 and 5.5 x 8.5 inch)
- Publisher: M.U.W. Edu Media & Publishing Ltd. (MostUsedWords)
- 30-day money-back guarantee
