Edgar Allan Poe

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1. Contributions by James Russell Lowell and Nathaniel Parker Willis libreka classics — These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

Stories include: The Raven; Hop-Frog; The Black Cat; The Cask of Amontillado; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Gold-Bug; The Masque of the Red Death; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Purloined Letter; The Pit and the Pendulum; and The Tell-Tale Heart.

Mit scharfer Kombinationsgabe klärt Auguste Dupin einen rätselhaften Doppelmord in der Pariser Rue Morgue auf. Die 1841 veröffentlichte Kurzgeschichte ist Poes erste Detektivgeschichte und steht damit am Beginn der modernen Kriminalliteratur. Die Ausgabe bietet den Text in der bewährten Übersetzung von Siegfried Schmitz. Mit Worterläuterungen, weiterführenden Literaturhinweisen und einer kurzen Nachbemerkung.

This volume contains Edgar Allen Poe's non-fiction work, "Eureka: A Prose Poem". Often published with the subtitle "An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe", it is a monograph on Poe's personal ideas about the universe and God, whom he frequently describes as an author. His last major work and largest non-fiction piece, "Eureka: A Prose Poem" comprises nearly 40,000 words. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in the...

Features 41 of Poe's most memorable poems - among them "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Worm," "Eldorado" and "Annabel Lee" - reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe's personality and his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms and figures of speech. Alphabetic lists of titles and first lines.

Alexander Dumas beschreibt das Leben Napoleon Bonapartes mit zahlreichen Schilderungen von seinen berühmten Schlachten. Das Werk muss vor dem Hintergrund von Land, Entstehungszeit und Autor gelesen werden, Dumas vergisst nicht zu erwähnen, dass er Bonaparte 1815 selbst von der Ferne aus noch gesehen habe. Als ein literarisches Dokument des Lebens Napoleon Bonapartes ist dieses Buch sehr lesenswert.

"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" is the only complete novel written by Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the 'Grampus'. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of another ship. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures further south. Docking...

The narrator, 22-year old Napoleon Buonaparte, changes his last name from "Froissart" to "Simpson" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well; he requires spectacles but, in his vanity "resolutely refused to employ them." His companion Talbot identifies the...

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,...

After the death of his fiancée, the beautiful Lenore, a young man considers her ascension into the afterlife, and the purpose of mourning for those who the dead leave behind. Despite the fact that his first published works were books of poetry, during his lifetime Edgar Allan Poe was recognized more for his literary criticism and prose than his poetry. However, Poe's poetic works have since become as well-known as his famous stories, and reflect...