Edgar - Libros y biografía

A native woman working in the little cultivated patch just outside the palisade which surrounded the mission was the first to see them. Her scream penetrated to the living room of the little thatched...

In THE LAD AND THE LION, Edgar Rice Burroughs has returned to a theme that catapulted his name to fame when he wrote "Tarzan of the Apes". For here is the story of a youth - actually a deposed king -...

In this sequel to At the Earth's Core, return to the world of Pellucidar - an exotic, savage land at the centre of our Earth, an untamed wilderness where time stands still. When American explorer David...

Lieutenant Obergatz had fled in terror from the seeking vengeance of Tarzan of the Apes. And with him, by force, he had taken Tarzan's beloved mate, Jane. Now the ape-man was following the faint spoor...

Jimber-Jaw awakens to find his world has changed and it is now the twentieth century!

Resonant with themes of love, loneliness, and death, the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe continues to appeal to modern readers more than 150 years after his death. This edition of The Raven and Other Poems...

Acknowledged as one of the most brilliant American writers, Edgar Allan Poe crafted a fantastic world filled with mystery and horror that has thrilled readers for generations. This edition includes Poe's...

"Poe est l'écrivain des nerfs. Chez lui, toute entrée en matière est attirante sans violence, comme un tourbillon. Sa solennité surprend et tient l'esprit en éveil. On sent tout d'abord qu'il s'agit de...

Votre chat ne cesse de vous suivre et de vous épier. Il vous observe et connaît vos crimes passés. Il veut votre perte… Quoi de plus angoissant que cette menace émanant d’un compagnon familier ? Ces...

En 1946, un professeur de philosophie de l'université de Gand jetait les bases de ce qu'on appellera plus tard l'histoire des sensibilités esthétiques. Se consacrant au Moyen Age, de Boèce aux grandes...

"Edgard Allan Poe (1809-1849) est l'une des principales figures du romantisme américain. Connu surtout pour ses contes fantastiques et autres histoires extraordinaires, mais controversé dans son pays...

Six énigmes extraordinaires où l'étonnante capacité d'intuition du détective Auguste Dupin est mise à l'épreuve. Des meurtres violents de Double assassinat de la rue Morgue et de La lettre volée au cryptogramme...

Dupin est le roi de la déduction. Et quand il décide de mener l’enquête, c’est avant tout pour prouver que tout s’explique, même les histoires les plus extraordinaires. Afin d’illustrer ce propos, le...

The chilling classic that inspired the new Netflix horror drama, "The Fall of the House of Usher". Venture, if you dare, into the House of Usher... The narrator visits his friend, Roderick Usher in his...

This follow-up to 'Tarzan of the Apes' begins where the first novel ended, with Tarzan's beloved Jane set to marry his cousin. Disappointed in love, Tarzan leaves for Europe, and after a bit of trouble,...

John Carter is catapulted to Mars! Or Barsoom, as the locals call the dying planet. Suddenly he is surrounded by strange, towering cities, colossal, four-armed savage green hordes and hideous monsters....

After ten long years away from Barsoom and his beloved red Martian princess Dejah Thoris, John Carter is finally back! Unfortunately, Carter appears in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed...

Old enemies are back to make life hard for Tarzan in 'The Beasts of Tarzan' (1916), the third novel in the thrilling adventure series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Dividing their time between Africa and England,...

One day, an ape named Kala finds a small human boy in the jungles of Africa. She names him Tarzan ("White skin" in ape language), and raises him as her own. In time, differences between himself and his...

From time immemorial, men have trembled and withered before the power of the femme fatale. "Ligeia" is a story about a man, whose meeting with a strange, beautiful, and overly intellectual woman in an...

This adventure novel is the ninth in the series and picks up where the action left off in 'Tarzan the Terrible'. Tarzan, Jane and their son Korak find an orphaned lion club, which Tarzan decides to take...

It is almost impossible to escape the Spanish Inquisition alive. However, Edgar Allan Poe's unnamed narrator, after suffering innumerable tortures upon his body and soul in the hands of his tormenters,...

A classic detective short story shrouded in mystery, "Marie Rogêt" features Poe's famour investigator C. Auguste Dupin trying to solve a murder case. Based upon an actual murder, the short story is an...

Inspired by Poe's own tragic life, the short story clearly presages Freud's method of psychoanalysis. In a very Fight-club-like plot and situations, "William Wilson" is a journey within the mind. Some...

Teeming with melancholy and vampirism, verging on the sanity's uttermost rim, Poe's characters often fall victims to supernatural happenings. Men wishing for their wife's deaths, doppelgangers and hollow...

War is looming as England is riven by a power struggle between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort. Into the chaos comes a fearsome figure, Norman of Torn, a warrior with a thirst for English blood.With...

This fascinating literary essay, written by the famous American writer and poet, Edgar Allan Poe, explores the mystique of artistic creation. By using his renowned poem 'The Raven' as an example, Poe...

Monsters created in laboratories, love triangles, pirate attacks, shipwrecks and damsels in distress. Arthur Maxon has way too much to deal with, but ultimately he bought it all on himself!'The Monster...

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic revenge story where an insulted man, Montresor, exacts his vengeance upon the drunk Fortunato. Just like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat", Poe offers the...

Have you ever wondered what would have happened if Scheherazade had not ceased with her tales and told the king another story that is actually a retelling of a previous story, but with an unexpected twist?...