so i was listening to edgar allen poe's Fall of the house of usher on tape.....

When I worked in a bookstore a teenager asked me if we had any Edgar Allan Poe that wasn't in Old English. I started to tell him it wasn't in Old English but then I decided he had a good point. There used to be a big difference between written English and spoken English. Moby Dick usually gets the credit for being the first novel written in spoken English. Nathaniel Hawthorne did it too. American voices.

I noticed there's a Netflix series too - was thinking of checking it out. TBH I don't even know the premise.

I wonder if there are adaptations...

Was it like a Shakespeare play?

Sad.