The Gold Bug
Edgar Allan Poe
£6.99
- ISBN: 9781906230814
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 01/07/14
- Publisher: Real Reads
- Imprint: Real Reads
- Series: Real Reads
- Retold by: Gill Tavner
- Illustrated by: Felix Bennett
- Pages: 64
- Size: 198mm x 129mm
- Age Range: Ages 7 - 14
Description
‘Dat gold-bug was a vicious bug. Massa caught it first but it bit him. I think da bite has made Massa poorly. It has affected him in da head.’
William Legrand has found a new type of bug, a golden bug, unusually heavy. His servant, Jupiter, is worried. Why is Legrand behaving so oddly? Has the bug’s bite made him mad? When Legrand shows his friend a drawing of the gold-bug, it looks more like a skull. What can this mean?
The arrival of the gold-bug leads the three men on an exciting adventure towards skeletons, a skull, and a hunt for buried treasure.
Should we believe Jupiter’s superstitious fears, or is there a more logical explanation of events? If there is, can you, the reader, discover it?