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After the death of the beautiful Annabel Lee, a young man contemplates their love story-the passionate love in their youth, and the love that continues even after her passing.
Despite the fact that his first published works were books of poetry, during his lifetime Edgar Allan Poe was recognized more for his literary criticism and prose than his poetry. However, Poe's poetic works have since become as well-known as his famous stories, and reflect...
62) The Bargain Lost
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The story follows a man named Pierre Bon-Bon, who believes himself a profound philosopher, and his encounter with the devil. The humour of the story is based on the verbal interchange between the two, which satirizes classical philosophers including Plato and Aristotle. The devil reveals he has eaten the souls of many of these philosophers, this intrigues Bon-Bon…
63) The Assignation
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The main plot begins when the man is wandering the streets of Venice and comes across a woman who screams because she sees her baby in the water. She is not actually trying to get the baby out of the water though instead a man from across the water jumps in, after the narrator has arrived and saves the baby. From here it becomes clear that the woman may have dropped the baby into the water by herself…
64) Die Feeninsel
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"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 Frank. Da der Kopf des Opfers abgetrennt und angeblich weggehext wurde, ist Poe nun der Hexerei angeklagt…
65) Eleonora
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Eleonora Edgar Allan Poe-The story follows an unnamed narrator who lives with his cousin and aunt in "The Valley of the Many-Colored Grass", an idyllic paradise full of fragrant flowers, fantastic trees, and a "River of Silence". It remains untrodden by the footsteps of strangers and so they live isolated but happy.
After living like this for fifteen years, "Love entered" the hearts of the narrator and his cousin Eleonora.
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Eldritch lovers, gothic grotesques and a homicidal jester are among the characters issued from the imagination of one of the great American tale-spinners of the nineteenth-century. Horror, humor and mystery intertwine in this collection of ten of Edgar Allan Poe's more, esoteric short stories.
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"Ligeia" was originally, published in the September 18, 1838 issue of American Museum. The poem "The Conqueror Worm," first published in Graham's...
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A meditation on death and mortality, "The Conqueror Worm" describes a cryptic and ghoulish play that represents the inevitability of death.
Despite the fact that his first published works were books of poetry, during his lifetime Edgar Allan Poe was recognized more for his literary criticism and prose than his poetry. However, Poe's poetic works have since become as well-known as his famous stories, and reflect similar themes of mystery and the macabre....
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This 1900 collection features Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, a remarkable work of disturbing gothic fiction which influenced science fiction's development as well as the work of Jules Verne and Herman Melville. The tale follows a young boy, Pym, and his friend, Augustus, as they witness such harrowing events as mutiny and cannibalism. Among the fifteen short stories in this edition are "The Devil in the Belfry" and...
69) Du hast es getan
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Leonie Goron hat einen Abschiedsbrief von Poe gelesen und ist am Boden zerstört. Sie versucht Dr. Baker zu finden und folgt ihm nach New York. Auf dem Weg dorthin lernt sie den jungen Hobbymaler Pennyfeather kennen. Am folgenden Tag überstürzen sich die Ereignisse. Das Pferd von Pennyfeathers Onkel kehrt schwer verletzt ins Dorf zurück, während von seinem Reiter jede Spur fehlt. Pennyfeather wird wegen Mordes angeklagt und zum Tode durch Erhängen...
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After an unnamed illness, the narrator sits in a coffee shop in London. Fascinated by the crowd outside the window, he considers how isolated people think they are, despite "the very denseness of the company around". He takes time to categorise the different types of people he sees. As evening falls, the narrator focuses on "a decrepit old man, some sixty-five or seventy years of age," whose face has a peculiar idiosyncrasy, and whose body "was short...
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Roderick Usher's fate is inextricably intertwined with that of his sister, Madeline, and that of their estate. As one falls, so do they all. "The Fall of the House of Usher" is considered Edgar Allan Poe's greatest work, and a masterpiece of Gothic horror.
A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe's stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include "The Fall of the House of...
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Imprisoned and condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, an unnamed man is cruelly tortured by his captors even as an enemy army encircles the city.
A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe's stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Masque of the Red Death" and...
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This volume contains Edgar Allen Poe's non-fiction work, "Eureka: A Prose Poem". Often published with the subtitle "An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe", it is a monograph on Poe's personal ideas about the universe and God, whom he frequently describes as an author. His last major work and largest non-fiction piece, "Eureka: A Prose Poem" comprises nearly 40,000 words. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in the...
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Vor noch nicht all zu langer Zeit gehörte es zum guten Ton, den Glauben an die ›Liebe auf den ersten Blick‹ für eine Lächerlichkeit zu halten, doch alle Leute, die denken und tief empfinden können, sind stets von seiner Wahrheit überzeugt gewesen. Neue Entdeckungen auf dem Gebiet des - sagen wir - ethischen und ästhetischen Magnetismus machen es sehr wahrscheinlich, dass die natürlichsten und folglich die wahrsten und stärksten Empfindungen...
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Une édition de référence d'Histoires extraordinaires d'Edgar Allan Poe, traduit par Charles Baudelaire, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
«Quand je regarde autour de moi, je suis honteux de mes premières terreurs. Si la tempête qui nous a poursuivis jusqu'à présent me fait trembler, ne devrais-je pas être frappé d'horreur devant cette bataille du vent et de l'Océan dont les mots vulgaires tourbillon et...
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Mit scharfer Kombinationsgabe klärt Auguste Dupin einen rätselhaften Doppelmord in der Pariser Rue Morgue auf. Die 1841 veröffentlichte Kurzgeschichte ist Poes erste Detektivgeschichte und steht damit am Beginn der modernen Kriminalliteratur.
Die Ausgabe bietet den Text in der bewährten Übersetzung von Siegfried Schmitz. Mit Worterläuterungen, weiterführenden Literaturhinweisen und einer kurzen Nachbemerkung.
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The Ultimate Poe: Short Stories pulls together all of the more than 50 short stories penned by author Edgar Allan Poe during his literary career. A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe's stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. Better-known stories include "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Tell-Tale Heart."
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Fantasy and reality collide when an unnamed narrator believes his beloved wife, Ligeia, has risen from the dead. "Ligeia" was one of Edgar Allan Poe's first published short stories, and spurred much debate as to the symbolism of Ligeia's death and supposed resurrection.
A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe's stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include "The Fall of...
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Der Ich-Erzäler Montrésor lockt den verhassten Fortunato in die Gewölbe unter seinem Palast und mauert ihn dort als Rache für erlittene „tausendfältige Unbill" lebend ein. Als Köder dient Montrésor ein Fass Amontillado, eine Sherry Art. Was Fortunato dem Ich-Erzähler Montrésor angetan hat, bleibt im Dunkeln.
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Assembled for the first time is a complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's science fiction stories. These sixteen tales include Poe's only novel 'Arthur Gordon Pym', which is filled with fantastical thoughts on life at the south polar region. 'The Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfall' involves space travel and aliens, 'Some Words with a Mummy' explores the realm of alternate history and suspended animation, while 'Eureka' introduces the big bang...