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The masque of the red death/Le masque de la mort rouge: Bilingual edition/Édition bilingue - Paperback

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by Edgar Allan Poe (Author)

The story takes place at the castellated abbey of the "happy and dauntless and sagacious" Prince Prospero. Prospero and one thousand other nobles have taken refuge in this walled abbey to escape the Red Death, a terrible plague with gruesome symptoms that has swept over the land. Victims are overcome by "sharp pains," "sudden dizziness," and sweat blood. The plague is said to kill within half an hour. Prospero and his court are indifferent to the sufferings of the population at large. They intend to await the end of the plague in luxury and safety behind the walls of their secure refuge, having welded the doors shut. One night, Prospero holds a masquerade ball to entertain his guests in six colored rooms of the abbey. Each of the first six rooms is decorated and illuminated in a specific color: blue, purple, green, orange, white, and violet. The last room is decorated in black and is illuminated by a scarlet light, "a deep blood color". Because of this chilling pairing of colors, very few guests are brave enough to venture into the seventh room. The same room is the location of a large ebony clock that ominously clangs at each hour, upon which everyone stops talking or dancing and the orchestra stops playing. Once the chiming stops, everyone immediately resumes the masquerade. L'histoire se situe dans une abbaye fortifi e, dans laquelle le prince Prospero s'est enferm , avec mille de ses courtisans, afin de fuir l' pid mie foudroyante de Mort Rouge, terrible fl au qui frappe le pays. Indiff rent aux malheurs des populations frapp es par la maladie, ils m nent alors une vie parsem e de vices et de plaisirs en toute s curit derri re les murs de l'abbaye. Une nuit, Prospero organise un bal masqu dans sept pi ces de l'abbaye, d cor es et illumin e chacune d'une couleur diff rente: bleu, pourpre, vert, orange, blanc, violet. La derni re est tapiss e de noir et clair e par une lumi re rouge sang. Elle inspire une si grande crainte aux invit s que rares sont ceux qui osent s'y aventurer. Il s'y trouve une grande horloge d' b ne qui sonne sinistrement chaque heure; alors, chacun arr te de parler et l'orchestre cesse de jouer. Durant la soir e, Prospero remarque une figure dans une robe qui ressemble un linceul, avec un masque semblable au cr ne d peignant une victime de la Mort Rouge. Se sentant gravement insult , Prospero exige qu'on lui donne l'identit de l'invit myst rieux et ordonne galement que l'on s'empare de l'individu. Mais, comme nul n'ose ob ir, il tire un poignard et le poursuit travers les sept pi ces. Quand il arrive dans la septi me pi ce, le myst rieux personnage se retourne et fait face Prospero, qui s'effondre, mort. Les courtisans, horrifi s et furieux, se jettent sur l'inconnu et lui arrachent son masque, mais d couvrent que le costume est vide. Tous comprennent qu'il s'agit de la Mort Rouge elle-m me et ils meurent les uns apr s les autres. Les sols des chambres sont remplis de sang et l'horloge s'arr te de sonner.

Number of Pages: 34
Dimensions: 0.08 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN
Publication Date: April 28, 2016
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