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Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems features all of Edgar Allan Poes classic fiction. It includes "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," and other tales of madness and mania, the revenge classics "The Cask of Amontillado" and "Hop Frog", the gothic chillers "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Mask of the Red Death", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and "The Purloined Letter," all featuring detective C. August...
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A pioneer of the short-story genre, American author Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished storyteller and poet who created haunting and macabre works that are enduring and influential more than 150 years after his death.
Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems includes all of the master's short stories and poetic works, including "The Raven", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "Annabel Lee," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "Lenore", and "The Fall of the...
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This essential anthology of Poe's critical works features items from the Southern Literary Messenger, Graham's Magazine, and other periodicals, reviewing works by Dickens, Hawthorne, Cooper, and many others. The Theory of Poetry - consisting of "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Rationale of Verse," and "The Poetic Principle" - appears as well. Introduction.
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The Ultimate Edgar Allan Poe: Short Stories, Poems and Essays is a celebration of Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary literary legacy. Spanning poems from his earliest days to his macabre and mysterious short stories to scholarly essays on such diverse topics as the English language and furniture, this ultimate collection includes works like "The Raven, "Annabel Lee," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Philosophy of Composition,"...
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Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is the story of young Arthur Gordon Pym who, yearning for adventure, stows away on the whaler Grampus. Beset by troubles including mutiny, shipwreck, and cannibals, Pym is rescued by the crew of the Jane Guy and continues his adventures as the ship heads further south. Eleven years later, Jules Verne's An Antarctic Mystery picks up the trail of Pym and his fellow shipmates, taking readers...
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"The Essential Tales and Poems" is a large, yet thorough, collection of the poems and stories written by horror master Edgar Allen Poe. Admirers will be happy to see Poe's most famous works present in the collection: "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Cask of Amontillado." These works have struck fear in audiences for generations, solidifying Poe's place in the American literature canon. Fans...
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The importance of Edgar Allan Poe to literary history can hardly be exaggerated; his genius and originality, both in terms of language and technique, influenced the French Symbolists of the late 19th century and thus changed the course of modern literature. Although chiefly remembered for his short stories, poetry was his first love, and this magnificently decorated edition presents Poe's complete poems in addition to his most important critical essays...
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Edgar Allen Poe is regarded as one of the greatest American writers and a pioneer of the horror genre, and this collection brings together some of his most celebrated tales. Themes of guilt, fear and revenge abound as the master of gothic horror transports readers to mysterious worlds, carries them on dangerous sea voyages, and investigates gruesome murders. Exploring the hidden depths of the human mind, these are tales full of thrills and intrigue.
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The father of the detective novel and an innovator in American Gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) made his living as America's first great literary critic. Today he is best remembered for his short stories and poems, haunting works of horror and mystery that remain popular around the world. This anthology presents Poe's finest works in a rich selection of poetry and prose that features his only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon...
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Extrait: "Mon nom est Arthur Gordon Pym. Mon père était un respectable commerçant dans les fournitures de la marine, à Nantucket, o je suis né. Mon aïeul maternel était attorney, avec une belle clientèle. Il avait de la chance en toutes choses, et il fit plusieurs spéculations très heureuses sur les fonds de l'Edgarton New Bank, lors de sa création."
11) Landor's Cottage
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This vintage book contains Edgar Allen Poe's 1849 short story, "Landor's Cottage". Unlike the majority of Poe's work, this story is devoid of mystery, murder, and the macabre, instead, it is a detailed and masterful description of a lone cottage. A perfect example of Poe's famous descriptive prowess, "Landor's Cottage" will appeal to fans of his marvellous work, and is not to be missed by the discerning collector. Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849) was...
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'It was unnecessary for all to perish, when, by the death of one, it was possible, and even probable, that the rest might be finally preserved.'
Travelling aboard a whaling vessel, a young stowaway is swept up in myriad misadventures - mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism - narrowly escaping numerous brushes with death. This rousing story of a daring sea voyage also presents its antihero with a host of psychological dilemmas, and offers an important insight...
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Extrait: "Relativement à la très étrange et pourtant très familière histoire que je vais coucher par écrit, je n'attends ni ne sollicite la créance. Vraiment, je serais fou de m'y attendre dans un cas o mes sens eux-mêmes rejettent leur propre témoignage. Cependant, je ne suis pas fou, - et très certainement je ne rêve pas. Mais demain je meurs, et aujourd'hui je voudrais décharger mon âme."
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The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories: The Tell Tale Heart (a murder's haunting guilt), The Cask of Amontillado (a story of brilliant revenge), and The Fall of the House of Usher (an ancient house full of very dark secretes). Also included in this collection are The Mask of the Red Death (horrors of 'the Plague'), and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven (a lover's decline into madness)....
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In this graphic novel edition of The Fall of the House of Usher, Raul Garcia adapts his animated short, The Fall of the House of Usher, now streaming on Prime Video, and as a part of the animated feature Extraordinary Tales.
A traveler arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have...
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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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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." This selection of Edgar Allan Poe's poetical works includes some of his best-known pieces, including the triumphant, gleeful 'The Bells', the tragic ode 'Annabel Lee' and his famous gothic tour de force, 'The Raven'. Some present powerful, nightmarish images of...
18) Le Corbeau
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Une édition de référence du Corbeau d'Edgar Allan Poe, traduit par Stéphane Mallarmé, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Ardemment je souhaitais le jour – vainement j'avais cherché d'emprunter à mes livres un sursis au chagrin – au chagrin de la Lénore perdue – de la rare et rayonnante jeune fille que les anges nomment Lénore : – de nom pour elle ici, non, jamais plus !
Et de la soie l'incertain...
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The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies...
20) Poèmes
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Découvrez l'univers sombre et envoûtant d'Edgar Allan Poe à travers son recueil de poèmes captivant. Plongez dans les profondeurs de l'âme humaine, explorant les thèmes de l'amour, de la mort, de la folie et du mystère. Les poèmes d'Edgar Allan Poe sont empreints d'une atmosphère gothique et macabre, transportant le lecteur dans des paysages poétiques hantés par des images saisissantes. Son écriture précise et évocatrice crée une tension...
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