Edgar Allan Poe
41) The Oblong Box
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The story opens with the narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from aboard the ship 'Independence'. The narrator learns that his old college friend Cornelius Wyatt is aboard with his wife and two sisters, though he has reserved three state-rooms. After conjecturing the extra room was for a servant or extra baggage, he learns his friend has brought on board an oblong pine box: "It was about six feet in length by two and a half in breadth." The narrator...
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Edgar Allen Poe is regarded as one of the greatest American writers and a pioneer of the horror genre, and this collection brings together some of his most celebrated tales. Themes of guilt, fear and revenge abound as the master of gothic horror transports readers to mysterious worlds, carries them on dangerous sea voyages, and investigates gruesome murders. Exploring the hidden depths of the human mind, these are tales full of thrills and intrigue.
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En "Los crímenes de la calle Morgue" (1841), Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) nos dejó lo que la crítica del S. XX calificaría como "el primer cuento moderno de detectives".
Y es que, sin duda, su influencia sobre otros autores del género es innegable, como resulta claramente de la comparación entre el espíritu observador y analítico del Auguste Dupin de "Los crímenes…" con el no menos inquisidor y obsesivo Sherlock Holmes de Conan Doyle…
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MS. Found In A Bottle is an adventure short story by Edgar Allan Poe that first appeared in the May 1833 edition of Baltimore Saturday Visiter. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward, he writes an "MS.", or manuscript, telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea. Some critics believe the story was meant...
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Manuscrito hallado en una botella (MS. Found in a Bottle en inglés), también traducido como "Manuscrito encontrado en una botella", es un cuento de terror del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe publicado por primera vez en el periódico Baltimore Saturday Visiter el 19 de octubre de 1833. El autor recibió por él un premio literario dotado con 50 dólares.
Un joven desarraigado pero de esmerada educación se embarca en un buque de carga en...
46) La carta robada
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Audiolibro narrado en castellano. La Carta Robada. Auguste Dupin junto a su amigo el narrador, protagonizan este relato corto con el objetivo de resolver el caso de una carta robada en las cámaras reales para ser utilizada con fines chantajistas y políticos. Dupin hace gala de su intelecto y capacidad deductiva. ¿ Aportará las claves para resolver el misterio?
«Cree solo en la mitad de lo que veas y en nada de lo que escuches»
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Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Edgar Allan Poe escribe este relato corto, gótico y melancólico publicado por primera vez en la revista Burton's Gentleman's Magazine 1839. Dos jóvenes se conocen desde la adolescencia, el narrador y Roderick Usher artista enfermizo y excéntrico; escribe a su amigo solicitando su necesaria presencia. Una alegoría a la muerte, personaje invitado y a la enfermedad; lugares fríos, oscuros y siniestros.
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841. Poe referred to it as a "tale of ratiocination" featuring the brilliant deductions of C. Auguste Dupin; it is today regarded as one of the first detective stories and is almost certainly the first locked room mystery. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and...
49) The Spectacles
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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...
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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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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.
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Der Ich-Erzäler Montrésor lockt den verhassten Fortunato in die Gewölbe unter seinem Palast und mauert ihn dort als Rache für erlittene „tausendfältige Unbill" lebend ein. Als Köder dient Montrésor ein Fass Amontillado, eine Sherry Art. Was Fortunato dem Ich-Erzähler Montrésor angetan hat, bleibt im Dunkeln.
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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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Imprisoned and condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, an unnamed man is cruelly tortured by his captors even as an enemy army encircles the city.
A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe's stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Masque of the Red Death" and...
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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...
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Fantasy and reality collide when an unnamed narrator believes his beloved wife, Ligeia, has risen from the dead. "Ligeia" was one of Edgar Allan Poe's first published short stories, and spurred much debate as to the symbolism of Ligeia's death and supposed resurrection.
A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe's stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include "The Fall of...
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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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Vor noch nicht all zu langer Zeit gehörte es zum guten Ton, den Glauben an die ›Liebe auf den ersten Blick‹ für eine Lächerlichkeit zu halten, doch alle Leute, die denken und tief empfinden können, sind stets von seiner Wahrheit überzeugt gewesen. Neue Entdeckungen auf dem Gebiet des - sagen wir - ethischen und ästhetischen Magnetismus machen es sehr wahrscheinlich, dass die natürlichsten und folglich die wahrsten und stärksten Empfindungen...
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Roderick Usher's fate is inextricably intertwined with that of his sister, Madeline, and that of their estate. As one falls, so do they all. "The Fall of the House of Usher" is considered Edgar Allan Poe's greatest work, and a masterpiece of Gothic horror.
A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe's stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include "The Fall of the House of...
60) The Assignation
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The main plot begins when the man is wandering the streets of Venice and comes across a woman who screams because she sees her baby in the water. She is not actually trying to get the baby out of the water though instead a man from across the water jumps in, after the narrator has arrived and saves the baby. From here it becomes clear that the woman may have dropped the baby into the water by herself…