Poe Edgar: 1724 books

« I also know of something strange, so strange that it has haunted me all my life. It is now fifty-six years since the incident occurred, and yet not a month passes that I do not see it again in a dream, so great is the impression of fear it has left on my mind. For ten minutes I experienced such...

Nella gloriosa guerra che l’America sostenne contro l’Inghilterra per rendersi libera, si distinse il quarter master general Poe, che apparteneva a ragguardevole famiglia di Baltimora. Il figlio di questi stava studiando legge, quando una sera a teatro vide Elisabetta Arnold, un’attrice celebre...

"The Black Cat" is told from the perspective of an insane narrator who, in his own words, does not expect the reader to believe him. He tells the reader up front that he is scheduled to die the following day, but the reader doesn't find out why until the end of the story... Poe's...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart – one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the...

Este ebook reúne toda la producción literaria de uno de los más grandes escritores de todos los tiempos, con 66 cuentos y más de un centenar de notas plenamente activos: una verdadera biblioteca de inestimable valor. En lo tocante a su técnica, y a su muchas veces apuntada intensidad narrativa,...

Los relatos de Poe tienen la textura del sueño. El lector transita por una zona en la que se borran los límites entre la realidad y la fantasía. Pero en él, el sueño no es una huida, sino una revelación. De la misma manera que el cielo reflejado en el lago es más puro que el cielo real, la...

This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes the final hours of a family tormented...

In French. Both collections of Poe short stories translated to French by the great poet Charles Baudelaire. Poe's reputation in France is far greater than in America, due in large part to the quality of this translation.

"Die Feeninsel" knüpft nahtlos an die Erzählung "Landor's Landhaus" an. Poe wurde wegen Mordes und Hexerei verhaftet und in eine Irrenanstalt gebracht. Leonie sucht ihn und will seine Unschuld beweisen. Sie spricht mit dem Richter des New Yorker Sondergerichts Sir Christopher...

Leonie und Poe mieten ein kleines Landhaus und möchten nach ihrer Rückkehr nach Amerika schnellstmöglich heiraten. Doch schon bald offenbart das Landhaus ein düsteres Geheimnis und der seltsame Vermieter Mr.Landor gesteht, dass auf dem Haus ein alter Fluch lastet. Doch auch Leonie Goron hat einiges vor ihrem Geliebten Poe verheimlicht wie zum Beispiel ihren wahren Namen...

Poes Erzählung bildet thematisch den Auftakt für seine Geschichte "Die Morde in der Rue Morgue"(1841), die ein Jahr später erschien. Bereits in "The Man of the Crowd"stellt Poe das Verbrechen in den Mittelpunkt seiner Kurzgeschichte - allerdings nicht als konkrete Tat, sondern...

And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death...

A unique one volume collection of all Poe's best tales and poems. Full of variety, entries include The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter - three classic detective stories - plus The Raven, one of his greatest poems. A wonderful selection of tales and poems...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.  *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves...