Edgar Poe: 1724 books

The Sphinx is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe about a man who decides to visit a relative living near the Hudson River north of New York City for two weeks during a cholera epidemic that occurred during the summer of 1832. One day during this visit, the man is reading a book near the window...

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...

Le Masque de la mort rouge (en anglais : The Masque of the Red Death) est une nouvelle d'Edgar Allan Poe publiée pour la première fois en mai 1842 dans le Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine sous le titre The Mask of the Red Death, avec le sous-titre A Fantasy. Une version révisée...

Metzengerstein, sous-titré dès la seconde édition « un conte imité de l'allemand » (en anglais, Metzengerstein. A Tale in Imitation of the German) est la première nouvelle de l'écrivain américain Edgar Allan Poe à être publiée. Elle se déroule en Hongrie dans une ambiance gothique et...

Le Démon de la perversité (en anglais The Imp of the Perverse) est une nouvelle qui se présente sous la forme d'un essai écrit par l'auteur et critique américain Edgar Allan Poe. Il traite des impulsions autodestructrices du narrateur qui incarne la métaphore symbolique du démon de...

A rare comedic short story by Edgar Allan Poe about a young man who has an infatuation with noses.

"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.

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.

"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.

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.

"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"...

Die große Sammlung klassischer Krimis, Spukgeschichten und anderer seltsamer Berichte ... Inhalte: Kriminalerzählungen und Detektivgeschichten Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue Von Edgar Allan Poe Das Wundermädchen aus der Schifferstraße Nach dem Neuen Pitaval von J. G. Hitzig und Willibald Alexis...

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by the American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. It was published for the first time on January 29, 1845, in the New York Evening Mirror. Noted for its musicality, stylized language and supernatural atmosphere, it tells of the mysterious visit of a talking raven to a distraught lover, tracing his slow descent into madness.

"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...