Edgar Allan Poe
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En la presente edición se ofrece a los lectores el conjunto más representativo de sus Historias extraordinarias, con títulos tan importantes como "La caída de la casa de Usher", "El retrato oval", "El gato negro", "Ligeia", "El corazón delator", "La barrica de amontillado" o "Doble asesinato en la calle Morgue", entre otros muchos.
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"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" is the only complete novel written by Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the 'Grampus'. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of another ship. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures further south. Docking...
84) The Spectacles
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The narrator, 22-year old Napoleon Buonaparte, changes his last name from "Froissart" to "Simpson" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well; he requires spectacles but, in his vanity "resolutely refused to employ them." His companion Talbot identifies the...
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El autor norteamericano Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) ocupa un lugar relevante en el panteón de los escritores más admirados, imitados y estudiados de la literatura universal. Considerado por muchos como un precursor del cuento corto y de terror como género literario, Edgar Allan Poe escribió también poesía, ensayos y crítica literaria. Fascinado con lo macabro y con un especial talento para ello, Poe también exploró diversos temas y tonos...
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Edgar Allan Poe, long heralded as the dark master of macabre fiction, is one of America's most celebrated and admired authors. Here, in this collection, you can enjoy four of his most beloved tales: "The Cask of Amontillado," "Berenice," "Hop-Frog" and the poem "Annabelle Lee."
Poe's atmospheric, moving and disturbing stories are perfect for a late-night read that will send a shiver up your spine! This collection also features a brief biography...
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Alexander Dumas beschreibt das Leben Napoleon Bonapartes mit zahlreichen Schilderungen von seinen berühmten Schlachten. Das Werk muss vor dem Hintergrund von Land, Entstehungszeit und Autor gelesen werden, Dumas vergisst nicht zu erwähnen, dass er Bonaparte 1815 selbst von der Ferne aus noch gesehen habe. Als ein literarisches Dokument des Lebens Napoleon Bonapartes ist dieses Buch sehr lesenswert.
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Une édition de référence des Histoires grotesques et sérieuses d'Edgar Allan Poe, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Je suis issu d'une race qu'ont illustrée une imagination vigoureuse et des passions ardentes. Les hommes m'ont appelé fou ; mais la science ne nous a pas encore appris si la folie est ou n'est pas le sublime de l'intelligence, si presque tout ce qui est la gloire, si tout ce qui est la profondeur,...
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Rey del suspense, rey de los relatos más o menos breves, eximio poeta, rey de los cuentos de terror, rey de la fantasía y de las desgracias personales, maestro de muchos escritores posteriores como Baudelaire, Dostoievski, Kafka, Lovecraft y Stephen King. Todos estos adjetivos y más le cuadran con exactitud al norteamericano Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Su vida, relativamente corta, la proyectó en sus escritos como nadie, actuando de catarsis,...
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Resonant with themes of love, loneliness, and death, the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe continues to appeal to modern readers more than 150 years later. Spanning the breadth of Poe's career, this collection of poetry follows the master from his early works through to poetical achievements such as "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee." One of the best-known American writers, Edgar Allan Poe's poetry influenced the American Romantic and French Symbolist movements...
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Der Ich Erzähler präsentiert den außergewöhnlichen Fall des Ernst Waldemar, welcher zu seiner Zeit großes Aufsehen in der Bevölkerung erregt hatte. Sein Interesse gilt dem animalischen Magnetismus oder auch Mesmerismus genannt. Bekannterweise wurde noch nie eine Person während ihres Todes "magnetisiert" oder in Hypnose versetzt. Er erwägt den Versuch, einen an schwerer Tuberkulose erkrankten Freund – Ernst Waldemar, einen Schriftsteller...
92) Tamerlane: Poem
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This epic poem gives an account of a Turkic ruler named Tamerlane, who conquered kingdoms to win power, while giving up that which his heart desired most.
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...
93) Thou Art the Man
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The plot involves a man wrongfully accused of murdering his uncle Barnabas Shuttleworthy, whose corpse is missing. An unnamed narrator finds the body, suspects the victim's good friend Charles Goodfellow, and sets up an elaborate plot to expose him. The corpse appears to come back to life and points to the best friend, exclaiming "Thou art the man!" The title and the climactic line refer to the second Book of Samuel in the Bible.
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Readers will recognize their favorite horror stories in the collection "The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings." Edgar Allen Poe was a master of suspense, horror, and mystery, and his stories, while truly terrifying, are also delightfully entertaining. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator has just killed a man and buried him under his floor. As he sits right above the body, he begins to hear the dead man's heart thumping loudly in his ears. Guilt...
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Revenge turns deadly when the narrator, Montressor, buries his friend, Fortunato, alive as the result of a perceived insult. Like "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado" is remarkable for being conveyed from the murderer's perspective.
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...
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"The Landscape Garden" also published under the title "The Domain of Arnheim" combines the essay form with that of the tale in an effort to improve on nature. Critics have praised the story as a marvellous prose poem that contains a musical element similar to that which Poe attempted to achieve in hie poetry.
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The Philosophy of Composition (1846) is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe. Recognized as a foundational figure of nineteenth century fiction, Poe has inspired generations of readers and writers with his craftsmanship and taste for tragedy and terror. His brief but meteoric career shaped the trajectory of American literature forever, forming a legacy without which science fiction, horror, and detective writing would surely be shells of themselves. Published...
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The narrator explains at length his theory on which he believes causes people to commit acts against their self-interest. This essay-like discussion is presented objectively, though the narrator admits that he is "one of the many uncounted victims of the "Imp of the Perverse". He then explains how his conviction for murder was the result of this. The narrator murders a man using a candle that emits a poisonous vapor. The victim enjoyed reading in...
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"A Descent Into The Maelströma" is a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb in Lofoten Norway. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old-"You suppose me a very old man," he says, "but I am not. It took less than a single day to change these hairs from a jetty black to white, to weaken my limbs, and to unstring my nerves." The narrator, convinced by the power of the whirlpools he sees in the ocean beyond, is then...
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Legendary Black Veil Brides' founder and frontman Andy Biersack curated his favorite Edgar Allan Poe tales, presented here in their original language with supplemental materials.
Dive back into classics like The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Oval Portrait, and The Mask of the Red Death with accompanying original artwork and a foreword from Andy himself. This compact, small but mighty, Poe collection is made to be a staple on your shelf.