The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his comfort.
Language: English
Published in: 1839
Word count: 7,058 words (≈ 28 minutes)
Source: http://en.wikisource.org
Copyright: Public Domain
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