Edgar - Libros y biografía

In the fabled land of Onthar lie the twin cities of Cathne and Athne - one a city of gold, the other a city of ivory. For generations the Cathneans and Athneans have warred with one another, using armies...

Paulvitch still lived and sought vengeance against Tarzan. As part of his plot, he lured Tarzan's young son away from London. But the boy escaped, with the aid of the great ape Akut. They fled to the...

Poes Erzählung "The Fall of the House of Usher", die 1839 erstmals erschien, stellt vermutlich das beliebteste Werk des amerikanischen Autors dar. Als Klassiker der "Gothic Novel" hat die meisterhaft...

Agghiacciante racconto di una terrificante ossessione, “Berenice” narra la storia di Egaeus, giovane uomo tormentato da sogni e visioni aberranti. Egli soffre di un disturbo dell’attenzione, una sorta...

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...

Il narratore giunge nell’antica dimora del suo amico d’infanzia Roderick Usher, dopo aver ricevuto una lettera in cui questi gli comunica d’essere ammalato e di volerlo accanto a sé. La malattia di Roderick...

After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars -- an Eden...

When Tarzan is orphaned as a baby deep in the African jungle, the apes adopt him and raise him as their own. By the time the boy is ten, he can swing through the trees and talk to the animals. By the...

This installment shifts focus from John Carter and Dejah Thoris, protagonists of the first three books in the series, to their son Carthoris, prince of Helium, and to Thuvia, princess of Ptarth, and follows...

Blueblooded mama's boy Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones is swept overboard during a south seas voyage for his lifelong ill health. He finds himself on a jungle island. His bookish education has not prepared...

Histoires toujours extraordinaires mais toutes nouvelles...

Sebbene motivato da un affetto esclusivamente amichevole, il protagonista sposa Morella, una donna dagli splendidi occhi e dalla voce musicale, ma soprattutto piena di talento, erudita e appassionata...

Nella valle dell’Erba dai Mille Colori, il narratore vive con la zia materna e la cugina Eleonora. Li circonda un paesaggio paradisiaco, pieno di fiori profumati e alberi fantastici, dove scorre il Fiume...

Gedankensteine" aus 25 Jahren, entstanden in den Jahren 1997 - 2022

The shimmering, cloud-covered planet of Venus conceals a wondrous secret: the strikingly beautiful yet deadly world of Amtor. In Amtor, cities of immortal beings flourish in giant trees reaching thousands...

Years ago David Innes and Abner Perry bored straight down through five hundred miles of the earth's crust and landed in Pellucidar, the savage, primeval world that lies at the center of the earth. This...

Rifugiatosi in un antico castello abbandonato, il narratore è colpito dagli strani dipinti che ne adornano le pareti. Tra questi lo affascina in particolare un ritratto circondato da una cornice ovale,...

Riconosciuto colpevole dall’Inquisizione spagnola di Toledo, il narratore viene rinchiuso in una cella immersa completamente nell’oscurità. Dopo aver misurato le dimensioni della cella, scopre che sotto...

In the late twentieth century, Admiral Julian 3rd can get no rest, for he knows his future. He will be reborn as his grandson in the next century to journey through space and make an ominous discovery...

A Fighting Man of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the seventh of his famous Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it on February 28, 1929, and the finished story was first published...

Back to the Stone Age recounts the strange adventures of Lieutenant von Horst, a member of the original crew that sailed to Pellucidar with Jason Gridley and Tarzan who is left behind in the inner world....

Attratto dagli studi sull’ipnosi, il narratore sottopone ad alcune sedute di mesmerismo il suo amico Ernst Valdemar, il cui temperamento nervoso lo rende un buon soggetto per gli esperimenti magnetici....

La presente edizione contiene una selezione di poesie tra le più famose di Edgar Allan Poe, nella traduzione storica di Ernesto Ragazzoni, scrittore italiano dalla vita interiore tormentata e turbata,...

In un’antica città fatiscente sulle rive del Reno, il protagonista incontra Ligeia, donna bellissima, passionale e intellettuale, dagli occhi neri e dai capelli corvini. I due si sposano, ma dopo breve...

La vie d'Edgar Allan Poe n'est plus à raconter: ses derniers traducteurs français, s'inspirant des travaux définitifs de son nouvel éditeur J.H. Ingram, l'ont éloquemment vengé des calomnies trop facilement...

Das blaublütige Muttersöhnchen Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones wird während einer Südseereise über Bord gespült. Er findet sich auf einer unbekannten Dschungelinsel wieder. Da er ein Feigling ist, hat er vor...

Die Saga um John Carter vom Mars bzw. der Barsoom- oder Mars-Zyklus ist eine der bekanntesten und auch beliebtesten Science-Fiction-Buchreihen des Tarzan-Autors Edgar Rice Burroughs. In der Geschichte...

Un récit d’aventures trépidant, idéal pour l’étude au collège ! Parce qu’il a soif d’aventure, le jeune Arthur Gordon Pym part en mer caché dans la cale d’un navire. Mais le bateau devient le théâtre...

Il est à peine besoin d’observer qu’un poème ne mérite ce nom qu’autant qu’il émeut l’âme en l’élevant. La valeur d’un poème est en raison directe de sa puissance d’émouvoir et d’élever.

Découvrez le 'Joueur d'échecs de Maelzel'. Aucune exhibition du même genre n’a jamais autant excité l’attention publique que le Joueur d’échecs de Maelzel. Partout où il s’est fait voir, il a été, pour...