The Purloined Letter in Baudelaire's French and in English
A minister has stolen a compromising letter, and the Paris police have searched every inch of his rooms without finding it. The prefect brings the problem to C. Auguste Dupin, who works it out with his pipe, in the dark, and finds the letter where nobody thought to look.
The French is by Charles Baudelaire, matched to the English sentence by sentence. His words are kept; only the spelling and grammar were brought up to today's rules.
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 on Poe, Dupin and the language.
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A Book Frequency Dictionary of the 1,272 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 like a detective story and want one they can finish in French.
Details
- Edgar Allan Poe, translated by Charles Baudelaire
- French-English edition, 2026, about 64 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
