Edgar - Libros y biografía

"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...

Inspired by the developments in cryptography and the gradually emerging detective fiction, "The Gold-Bug" surely got mixed critical reception from the public. Hailed as both "ingenious" and "trashy",...

Embarking upon a journey to discover the limits of one's sanity and guilty conscience, "The Black Cat" is a perfect example of how no bad deed goes unpunished. Obsessively dark and violent, the story...

What would you get if you take Lewis Carroll's fairy-tale imagination and filter it through Edgar Allan Poe's terror-ridden and grotesque vision? Add a tint of humour and a pinch of satire and voilà –...

From the mysterious marriage in "Morella", to the satirical and secretive vistas of "The Man That Was Used Up", or the depressed Roderick Usher, the reader is facing the first volume of E. A. Poe's tales....

O que há dentro do planeta Terra? Para salvar David Innes das garras de seus inimigos, o rei da selva entra na crosta da Terra! Durante essa jornada, ele descobre os mistérios de Pellucidar, um mundo...

A representative of Poe's tales of the sea, "Ms. Found in a Bottle" follows the writer's infatuation with the horrific and unknown forces around us. An avid reader just like his creator, the narrator...

Poe's symptomatic need to portray dying or already dead women is evocative of his own failed and miserably spent marriage life to his young cousin. "Morella", in a way similar to "Ligeia", explores man's...

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...

An example of Poe's mystery-laden and dream-oriented short stories, "A Tale of the Rugged Mountains" offers unique perspective on important notions at the time – mesmerism, alternative medicine, and time-travel....

C. Auguste Dupin, the amateur detective from "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget" returns for the last time to solve a mystery involving a stolen letter, some blackmail, and...

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....

Thuvia, Maid of Mars is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The story follows Carthoris, son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris, as he attempts to rescue Thuvia, the princess of Ptarth. Thuvia is being...

David Innes, l’Imperatore di Pellucidar, e? prigioniero dei Korsar. Sulla Terra esterna viene organizzata una spedizione per portarlo in salvo, e a capo della spedizione viene chiamato Tarzan, il Re delle...

Edgar Allan Poe Erzählungen: Der Rabe ..7 König Pest 14 Das Manuskript in der Flasche 28 Das System des Dr. Teer und Prof. Feder 41 Seltsame Geschichten 64 - Der Goldkäfer...

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,...

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,...

Ein Doppelmord....ein Untersuchung...und eine seltsame Geschichte.

During the last few years every incident in the life of Edgar Poe has been subjected to microscopic investigation. The result has not been altogether satisfactory. On the one hand, envy and prejudice...

Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires est un recueil de 23 nouvelles écrites par Edgar Allan Poe traduites et réunies sous ce titre par Charles Baudelaire en 1857. Dont les célèbres nouvelles "Le Portrait...

Questa edizione contiene tre fra le più celebri narrazioni di Edgar Allan Poe. Morella è un inquietante e intenso brivido; il famosissimo La caduta della casa Usher è un racconto “gotico”: fratello e...

Poet and writer of tales, was born at Boston, where his parents, who were both actors, were temporarily living. He was left an orphan in early childhood in destitute circumstances, but was adopted by...

"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...

This Introduction does not pretend to offer anything to specialists. It is written for theological students, ministers, and laymen, who desire to understand the modern attitude to the Old Testament as...

AMONG the many adventurous enterprises which rendered the age of feudalism and chain-armour memorable in history, none were more remarkable or important than the 'armed pilgrimages' popularly known as...

Die Buchreihe "DREHBUCH-STUDIUM Das Fachbuch zum Drehbuch" beschreibt an konkreten Beispielen, welche Überlegungen beim Schreiben einer fiktionalen Geschichte angestellt werden müssen, wie man eine Geschichte...

Eric hatte sich von Anfang an in die falsche Richtung bewegt, denn er hatte sich mit jedem Meter wegbewegt. Weg von zuhause, weg von seiner Frau, weg von seinem Sohn und schließlich weg von sich. Er hatte...