Edgar Allan: 1706 books

"Annabel Lee" é o último poema completo composto pelo autor estadunidense Edgar Allan Poe. Como muitos dos poemas de Poe, explora o tema da morte de uma linda mulher. O narrador, que se apaixonou com Annabel Lee quando eles eram jovens, tem um amor por ela tão forte que mesmo os anjos...

Vie d’Edgar Allan Poe  L’inhumation prématurée  L’homme sans souffle  Une mystification  Le philosophe Bon-Bon  La découverte de Von Kempelen  Un entrefilet aux X  La caisse oblongue  Ne pariez jamais votre tête au diable  Le journal de Julius Rodman  Marginalia 

La Chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) est une nouvelle fantastique écrite par Edgar Allan Poe. Elle fut publiée pour la première fois en septembre 1839 dans la revue littéraire Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. Cette nouvelle figure parmi les textes des Nouvelles histoires...

Edgar Allan Poe's satirical short story about a female writer who is told by her editor that she must kill herself and then record the sensations of her death.

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

Ms. Found In A Bottle is a small prototypical story by the master, whose extravagantly macabre tales have inspired such latter-day disciples as H.P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King. We follow an unnamed sailor at sea who finds himself in a series of traumatic circumstances. First, his vessel...

"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). First published in 1849, it is a satire of California Gold Rush and Nineteenth Century American Press.

"Morella" is a short story in the Gothic horror genre by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. An unnamed narrator marries Morella, a woman with great scholarly knowledge who delves into studies of the German philosophers Fichte and Schelling, dealing with the question...

This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe): A man is bitten by a golden bug and what ensues is a treasure hunt adventure featuring a cryptic message. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson):...

Edgar Allan Poe's short story, Mellonta Tauta, was originally published in 1849. It is presented as a collection of letters written by a woman during a balloon flight in 2848. Within the letters-directed to a personal friend-she compares contemporary science, philosophy, and customs to those of a...

"The Business Man" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe about a businessman boasting of his accomplishments. It was published in February 1840 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. The story questions the concept of a self-made man. The narrator of the story is Peter Proffit, a "methodical"...

"Mesmeric Revelation" is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). First published in 1844, the tale is centered on mesmerist experiments. This edition also contains a long note on Poe's life and work written by French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) in 1852. The essay was translated in English by Henry Curwen (1845-1892) in 1873.

The death of Edgar Allan Poe on October 7, 1849, has remained mysterious: the circumstances leading up to it are uncertain and the cause of death is disputed. On October 3, Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance",...

Dans la décoration intérieure, si ce n'est dans l'architecture extérieure de leurs résidences, les Anglais excellent. Les Italiens n'ont qu'un faible sentiment en dehors des marbres et des couleurs. En France, meliora probant, deteriora sequuntur ; les Français sont une race trop coureuse pour...