The Murders in the Rue Morgue - formato ePub

Los mejores relatos de misterio y terror del gran maestro del géneroSe reúnen en esta edición especial de Austral catorce de los mejores relatos de Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), uno de los escritores norteamericanos...

El "gato negro" de Edgar Allan Poe entrega todos los elementos espeluznantes que hacen una historia aterradora y frecuentadora. Este cuento oscuro particular combina el miedo y la culpa con la brutalidad...

Edgar Allan Poe - En el año 1844 Edgar Allan Poe escribio este relato fantastico que trata el hipnotismo bajo las teorias de Mesmer, los efectos del consumo de drogas y la relacion magnetica entre paciente...

…Oinos.-Perdona, Agathos, la flaqueza de un espíritu al que acaban de brotarle las alas de la inmortalidad. Agathos.-Nada has dicho, Oinos mío, que requiera ser perdonado. Ni siquiera aquí el conocimiento...

"Desde la cuna a la tumba un viento de prosperidad impulsó a mi amigo Ellison. Y no uso la palabra prosperidad en un sentido meramente mundano. La empleo como sinónimo de felicidad."

En el curso de ciertas investigaciones sobre el Oriente tuve hace poco oportunidad de consultar el Tellmenow Isitsoornot, obra que, a semejanza del Zohar, de Simeon Jochaides, es muy poco conocida aun...

La incomparable aventura de Hans Pfaall es un relato de viajes imaginarios que enmascara la sátira incendiaria. Critica la mezquindad de los prohombres burgueses de la época y levantó ampollas entre los...

La historia es narrada por un hombre que vive con su prima y tía en el Valle de la Hierba Irisada, un paraíso lleno de fragantes flores, árboles fantásticos y un «Río de Silencio». Después de vivir así...

Novela de misterio de Edgar Allan Poe.

El cuervo es un poema narrativo escrito por Edgar Allan Poe, que fue publicado por primera vez en 1845 y constituye su composicion poetica mas famosa, ya que este poema lo hizo reconocido internacionalmente.

"Durante una excursión a pie, que realicé el pasado verano a través de uno o dos de los condados ribereños de Nueva York, me encontré, al caer el día, un tanto desorientado acerca del camino que debía...

…Oinos.-Perdona, Agathos, la flaqueza de un espíritu al que acaban de brotarle las alas de la inmortalidad. Agathos.-Nada has dicho, Oinos mío, que requiera ser perdonado. Ni siquiera aquí el conocimiento...

La narración de Arthur Gordon Pym (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket en inglés) es la única novela de su autor, el estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe, aparecida primero por entregas y posteriormente...

La Máscara de la Muerte Roja es un cuento del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe publicado por primera vez en 1842.

Una noche, dos marineros huyen sin pagar de una taberna de Londres. Al ser perseguidos, cruzan unas barreras que prohiben la entrada a una región de la ciudad aislada por la enfermedad de la peste. A...

El corazón delator (título original en inglés: The Tell-Tale Heart), también conocido como El corazón revelador, es un cuento del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe, publicado por primera vez en...

The senator took an elevator directly to the helicopter landing on the roof of the building. It was several minutes before he had located the little runabout he had bought for his wife the previous Christmas....

Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the...

You will, I know, permit me to address you these essays which are more the product of your erudition than of my enthusiasm. With the motives of their appearance you are familiar. We have wondered together...

This don't pretend to be "Literature." This is just a tale for red-blooded folks who want a story and not just a lot of "psychological" stuff or "analysis." Boy, you'll love it! Read it here, see it...

Daniel Defoe's faith-filled The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before....

When does life begin?... A well-known book says "forty". A well-known radio program says "eighty". Some folks say it's mental, others say it's physical. But take the strange case of Mel Carlson who gave...

The speaker had just pushed his horse over the brow of a slope which he and his servant had for some time been mounting, through the steamy warmth of a foggy May morning. The thick haze which lay heavy...

Mr. Greene, a wealthy Englishman on a European holiday with his family, carried his money and his wife's jewels in one of their many boxes. On transferring from the boat on Lake Como to their hotel, the...

The Return of the Native is English author Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the magazine Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly...

For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the...

"We heard the tecbir, so the Arabs call Their shout of onset, when with loud appeal They challenge heaven, as if commanding conquest." Hugh de Payens, having now laid in Europe the foundations of the...

Trees filtering light onto dapple grass. Trees like tall, languid ladies with feather fans coquetting airily with the ugly roof of the monastery. Trees like butlers, bending courteously over placid walks...

Eski Yunanda, air Homerosun yazd varsaylan büyük bir destandr. Bir baka Homeros destan olan Ödeysseia ile birlikte, bat edebiyatnn en eski örnei ve tüm zamanlarn en güzel iirlerinden saylr. Hem lyada...

All they want for Christmas is ...Breanna Henderson lives by lists, strict schedules, and preparations galore. Being pregnant while climbing up a ladder into her best friend Billy's bedroom was definitely...

The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's...

The highly anticipated follow-up to bestselling BIG HORN, WALKER PRAIRIE is a thrilling Jenn Herrington legal mystery set in Wyoming's rugged Bighorn Mountains. When former prosecutor and mystery writer...

We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920-1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 in New York. The novel describes a world...

The beautiful scenery of the Moselle has too long been left without notice. It is true, some of our Artists have presented to us scenes on the banks of this river; but English travellers are, for the...

The Pilgrim's Progress, religious allegory by the English writer John Bunyan, published in two parts in 1678 and 1684. The work is a symbolic vision of the good man's pilgrimage through life. At one time...

"Ah there, girls! How are you?" — "GOD SPEED YOU" "Oh, Nathalie, I do believe there's Grace Tyson in her new motor-car," exclaimed Helen Dame, suddenly laying her hand on her companion's arm as the two...

One more point deserves notice. Butler often refers in "Life and Habit" to Darwin's "Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication." When he does so it is always under the name "Plants and Animals."...

The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe 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,...

Eldorado is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of...

Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona. What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid...

Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. CHAPTER I "Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. "Hi, driver!" The taxi man,...

The Warden, published in 1855, is the first book in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series of six novels. It was his fourth novel.The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly...

The Mirror of the Sea is a collection of autobiographical essays originally published variously in several magazines between 1904 and 1906. In discussing the work, Conrad described it as "a very intimate...

Victoria Finney has always been the planner. So, when she's blindsided by a terminaldiagnosis, she's not just worried about her own future—she's worried about herhusband, Troy. Determined to ensure he's...

Alan Thurston was an immunologist at Midwestern University Medical School. Like most men in the teaching trade, he also had a research project. If it worked out, he'd be one of the great names in medicine;...

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