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Berenice (Q512082)

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short story by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Berenice—A Tale
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    Berenice
    short story by Edgar Allan Poe
    • Berenice—A Tale

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    Berenice (English)
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    Bérénice (French)
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    Berenice (Spanish)
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    Berenice (Italian)
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    1835
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    Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch—as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. (English)
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    But I could not force it open, and in my tremor it slipped from out my hands, and fell heavily, and burst into pieces, and from it, with a rattling sound, there rolled out some instruments of dental surgery, intermingled with many white and glistening substances that were scattered to and fro about the floor. (English)
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    I have a tale to tell in its own essence rife with horror- I would suppress it were it not a record more of feelings than of facts. (English)
    With a heart full of grief, yet reluctantly, and oppressed with awe, I made my way to the bed-chamber of the departed. [...] I sprang convulsively from the bed, and, uttering no word, rushed forth a maniac from that apartment of triple horror, and mystery, and death. (English)
    Berenice (short story)
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