allan - Libros y biografía

The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for...

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder...

"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in...

"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder mystery based on the details of...

"Mesmeric Revelation" is a short story in which a mesmerist puts his friend, Mr. Vankirk, into a trance. While mesmerized, Vankirk discusses profound ideas about the nature of God, the universe, and the...

"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...

"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis...

Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by the master of noir Mickey Spillane, takes on the mob in the first of two gripping final novels for the deadly private eye.Winter 1964. After a hit-and-run accident...

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of short stories that delve into the eerie and macabre. The anthology showcases Edgar Allan Poe's talent for gothic literature, featuring tales of...

Set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the plot follows William Legrand, who was recently bitten by a gold-colored bug. His servant Jupiter fears Legrand is going insane and goes to Legrand's friend,...

Os labirintos de uma história essencial para a compreensão dos avanços e mazelas do nosso futebol. José Hawilla, o maior empresário do marketing esportivo do Brasil, dono de uma fortuna estimada em R$...

God Love You - The Best of Fulton J. Sheen Each paragraph has been selected from over two dozen books written by him for the particular help and guidance they can bring to the reader.  These brief, incisive...

Prepare for a spine-tingling journey into the enigmatic world of Edgar Allan Poe with our eBook, "The Fall of the House of Usher." This literary masterpiece is a haunting tale that will send shivers down...

Discover the mystery and terror of Edgar Allan Poe's classic gothic taleIn this chilling masterpiece of Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe tells the story of Roderick Usher and his dying twin sister, Madeline....

Welcome to a journey into the enigmatic world of literature with our eBook, "The Fall of the House of Usher." Within these digital pages, you will uncover a timeless classic that resonates with mystery...

Il semble clair que Shakespeare a véritablement et consciemment conçu ses oeuvres comme les vecteurs de sa sagesse politique — ses pièces historiques en fournissent la preuve. Shakespeare a cherché à...

Annonçant le roman policier, chefs-d'oeuvre de la littérature fantastique, les Histoires extraordinaires d'Edgar Allan Poe ont depuis longtemps consacré leur auteur comme une figure tutélaire du romantisme...

One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the scientific developments of an era marked by staggering change. In this collection...

This book presents a unique historical view of American English. It chronicles year by year the contributions Americans have made to the vocabulary of English and the words Americans have embraced through...

A limnologia compreende estudos em diversos ambientes aquáticos continentais, quais sejam: lagos, lagunas, açudes, represas, rios, riachos, brejos, águas subterrâneas, nascentes, viveiros, tanques de...

The Complete Works of Alexander Hamilton is a meticulous compilation that spans the breadth of Hamilton'Äôs prodigious influence on American political thought and practice. This anthology not only presents...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDS One of the world's leading neurologists reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the brain disorders that he and his staff at the Harvard Medical...

Private eye Mike Hammer is recuperating in Florida after a mob shootout when he learns that his old mentor from the New York police force has taken his own life. All the evidence points to suicide, but...

Complete, yet concise, Medicine: A Competency-Based Companion provides the core information you need to think like an experienced clinician during your medical rotation. This handy, pocket-sized medical...

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want. To avoid the...

The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled...

True! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing...

For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence....

This book contains the complete Edgar Allan Poe's tales and poems —over 135 works— in the chronological order of their original publication. Some of the most notable are: Tales: - The Black Cat - The...

This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poe's greatest writings, including novels, short stories and poems such as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale...