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/^t/The story entitled "Eleonora" is divided into two parts; the first part contains an introduction and the picture of the Valley of Many Colored Grass. The second part refers to the strange city where the narrator suddenly found himself. This novel is filled with avowed allegories so remarkably developed by Poe. The effects obtained show his quality as a refined writer. In "Eleonora" he applied a technique which I consider a typically gothic one. To gain a dramatic effect, Poe moves artistically from strangeness to the point of abnormality, and from sadness to the point of horror. The beauty of his writing is strange; at the same time it is poetically sad. Surprisingly, the story contains no "character", no traditional protagonist, who is always the pride of any "normal" fiction and whom an average reader may expect. But what is most surprising is the absolute inhumanity of the personages occurring in the story and absolutely inhuman way in which Poe sets them.