Edgar-Allan Poe - Libros y biografía

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival...

Edgar Allan Poe (* 19. Januar 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; † 7. Oktober 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er prägte entscheidend die Genres der Kriminalliteratur,...

I cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia. Long years have since elapsed, and my memory is feeble through much suffering. Or, perhaps,...

DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary...

The Raven A narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Published originally in January 1845, the poem has a musical quality with stylized language and a supernatural atmosphere. It speaks of a mysterious talking...

"LET us hurry to the walls," said Abel-Phittim to Buzi-Ben-Levi and Simeon the Pharisee, on the tenth day of the month Thammuz, in the year of the world three thousand nine hundred and forty-one—let us...

YE who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows. For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known, and many centuries...

Il maestro del grottesco, della fantascienza e del poliziesco è stato tra gli autori più prolifici della sua generazione: non soltanto romanzi, non soltanto poesie ma anche e soprattutto racconti. Alcuni...

"Il Corvo ed altre poesie" è una raccolta di poesie scritte da Edgar Allan Poe nel 1845.   L'autore Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, 19 gennaio 1809 – Baltimora, 7 ottobre 1849) fu uno scrittore, poeta, critico...

Un duplice omicidio...una inchiesta....e una strana storia.

Questa edizione contiene tre fra le più celebri narrazioni di Edgar Allan Poe. Una discesa nel Maelstrom narra di una tempesta che modifica il tempo; La verità sul caso di mister Valdemar sperimenta il...

Born in poverty at Boston, January 19 1809, dying under painful circumstances at Baltimore, October 7, 1849, his whole literary career of scarcely fifteen years a pitiful struggle for mere subsistence,...

In queste pagine proverete il brivido tipico della lettura del Poe più ispirato. Non soltanto per la storia, assolutamente singolare, del conflittuale rapporto tra un uomo e il suo animale domestico preferito,...

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his...

Un recueil de 13 nouvelles écrites par Edgar Allan Poe, puis traduites et réunies sous le titre des "Histoires extraordinaires" . Metzengerstein (1832), Manuscrit trouvé dans une bouteille (1833), Morella...

"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...

Unico romanzo pubblicato in vita di Poe, merita di essere letto soprattutto perché rappresenta il manifesto ideale dello stile del grande autore americano, quell'horror psicologico di cui è stato maestro...

Dans ces derniers temps, un malheureux fut amené devant nos tribunaux, dont le front était illustré d’un rare et singulier tatouage : Pas de chance ! Il portait ainsi au-dessus de ses yeux l’étiquette...

Les Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym de Nantucket est l'unique roman achevé par Edgar Allan Poe. Il est publié en 1838 aux États-Unis et en Angleterre. Charles Baudelaire en donne une première traduction...

Un clàssic de la novel·la d'aventures: la novel·la de culte d'Edgar Allan Poe.Fascinat pels relats d'aventures marineres d'un amic, el jove Arthur Gordon Pym, fill d'un comerciant de Nantucket, se sent...

"The Duc de L'Omelette" is a humorous short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier on March 3, 1832, and was subsequently revised a number...

This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poe's complete tales and poems, including "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" and "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...

A humorous story of a conversation with a mummy written by Edgar Allan Poe. Rewritten in modern English to make it an easy read. Don't waist time trying to look up every word. There is no need for a dictionary...

"Bon-Bon" is a comedic short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in December 1832 in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. Originally called "The Bargain Lost", the story follows a man named Pierre...

In Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death,' the story follows Prince Prospero as he attempts to evade a deadly plague known as the Red Death by secluding himself and a thousand of his noble friends...

The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical...

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of...

"Berenice" is a horror short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). First published in 1835, the tale is centered on the death of a young girl, named Berenice, and the mysterious visions of her cousin,...

The story opens with the delivery to a crowd gathered in Rotterdam of a manuscript detailing the journey of a man named Hans Pfaall. The manuscript, which comprises the majority of the story, sets out...