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Readers will recognize their favorite horror stories in the collection "The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings." Edgar Allen Poe was a master of suspense, horror, and mystery, and his stories, while truly terrifying, are also delightfully entertaining. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator has just killed a man and buried him under his floor. As he sits right above the body, he begins to hear the dead man's heart thumping loudly in his ears. Guilt...
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The Ultimate Poe: Short Stories pulls together all of the more than 50 short stories penned by author Edgar Allan Poe during his literary career. A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe's stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. Better-known stories include "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Tell-Tale Heart."
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For lovers of gothic American literature, horror, mystery, or suspense, consider the nine gripping stories contained within the Edgar Allen Poe collection "The Gold-Bug and Other Tales." Two mysteries and seven murders, all coming from various points in Poe's writing career, make this anthology a valuable addition to any literature collection. "The Gold-Bug" is set in South Carolina and follows the tale of a man and his servant as they embark on a...
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Here, in Volume II of II, is contained "A Predicament," "Mystification," and "Eleonora," among many others. Many acknowledge Poe's tales as prototypes for the later development of the horror, mystery, and science fiction genres. Poe's life is perhaps as fabled and shrouded in mystery as his stories. His cryptic death remains a source of myth. Poe was firmly established in the Gothic movement of the time and further was a father of "dark romanticism"...
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Some of the most popular horror and mystery stories of all time are collected together here in "The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe." A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these chilling and classic tales. Included in this collection is "The Fall of the House of Usher," the story of a man and his sister who suffer from a strange, debilitating illness. Her death drives him to the point of madness as their fragile mansion...
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Enter the dark worlds created by Edgar Allen Poe in the collection "The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales." Poe emphasizes morbidity and death through his tales and poems, and this anthology holds all of Poe's best and most famous works from throughout his career. In "The Fall of the House of Usher," a man and his sister suffer from a strange, debilitating illness. Her death drives him to the point of madness, and the fragile mansion falls...
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This volume contains a collection of some of the best short stories ever written by Edgar Allan Poe. A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these classic short stories. Contained within this volume are the following: The Gold-Bug, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Balloon-Hoax, The Purloined Letter, A Descent into the Maelström, The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado,...
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Here, in Volume I of II, is contained "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Black Cat," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "Ligeria," among many others. Many acknowledge Poe's tales as prototypes for the later development of the horror, mystery, and science fiction genres. Poe's life is perhaps as fabled and shrouded in mystery as his stories. His mysterious death remains a source of myth. Poe was firmly established in the Gothic movement of the time and...
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Rey del suspense, rey de los relatos más o menos breves, eximio poeta, rey de los cuentos de terror, rey de la fantasía y de las desgracias personales, maestro de muchos escritores posteriores como Baudelaire, Dostoievski, Kafka, Lovecraft y Stephen King. Todos estos adjetivos y más le cuadran con exactitud al norteamericano Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Su vida, relativamente corta, la proyectó en sus escritos como nadie, actuando de catarsis,...
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Eldritch lovers, gothic grotesques and a homicidal jester are among the characters issued from the imagination of one of the great American tale-spinners of the nineteenth-century. Horror, humor and mystery intertwine in this collection of ten of Edgar Allan Poe's more, esoteric short stories.
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"Ligeia" was originally, published in the September 18, 1838 issue of American Museum. The poem "The Conqueror Worm," first published in Graham's...
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"¡Bienvenido a otro volumen de la Colección Mejores! Cuentos, una selección de relatos escritos en diferentes épocas por autores de diversas nacionalidades y con temas muy variados, pero que comparten una cualidad literaria enorme y quizás la más importante: la de brindar placer al lector. En esta preciosa edición de la Colección Mejores Cuentos, el lector encontrará las mejores historias de Edgar Allan Poe, los clásicos de suspenso y terror...
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Master of the Gothic and creator of the detective genre, Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous writers in all of American literature. Here is a carefully selected collection of his finest works, including such classics as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado and many more.
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Une édition de référence d'Histoires extraordinaires d'Edgar Allan Poe, traduit par Charles Baudelaire, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
«Quand je regarde autour de moi, je suis honteux de mes premières terreurs. Si la tempête qui nous a poursuivis jusqu'à présent me fait trembler, ne devrais-je pas être frappé d'horreur devant cette bataille du vent et de l'Océan dont les mots vulgaires tourbillon et...
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Une édition de référence des Histoires grotesques et sérieuses d'Edgar Allan Poe, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Je suis issu d'une race qu'ont illustrée une imagination vigoureuse et des passions ardentes. Les hommes m'ont appelé fou ; mais la science ne nous a pas encore appris si la folie est ou n'est pas le sublime de l'intelligence, si presque tout ce qui est la gloire, si tout ce qui est la profondeur,...
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It is virtually impossible to overstate Edgar Allan Poe's importance in the field of American literature. He is credited not only with inventing or significantly advancing the short story, detective fiction, and science fiction, but also with being one of the first Americans to pursue a career in writing as a vocation. This comprehensive volume is a career-spanning collection of Poe's stories and poems.
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The Edgar Allan Poe Collection (2020) compiles several iconic works of short fiction and poetry by an icon of American literature. Recognized as a foundational figure of nineteenth century fiction, Poe has inspired generations of readers and writers with his craftsmanship and taste for tragedy and terror. His brief but meteoric career shaped the trajectory of American literature forever, forming a legacy without which science fiction, horror, and...
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Assembled for the first time is a complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's science fiction stories. These sixteen tales include Poe's only novel 'Arthur Gordon Pym', which is filled with fantastical thoughts on life at the south polar region. 'The Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfall' involves space travel and aliens, 'Some Words with a Mummy' explores the realm of alternate history and suspended animation, while 'Eureka' introduces the big bang...
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Extrait: "Relativement à la très étrange et pourtant très familière histoire que je vais coucher par écrit, je n'attends ni ne sollicite la créance. Vraiment, je serais fou de m'y attendre dans un cas o mes sens eux-mêmes rejettent leur propre témoignage. Cependant, je ne suis pas fou, - et très certainement je ne rêve pas. Mais demain je meurs, et aujourd'hui je voudrais décharger mon âme."
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