Poe: 1914 books

En esta antología de cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe, encontrará algunos de los cuentos más populares del maestro del terror. En este volumen ordenados cronologicamente encontrará cuentos como: El misterio de Marie Roget, La máscara de la muerte roja, El pozo y el pendulo y el corazon delator.

Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle (1820) Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug (1842) The Purloined Letter (1845) Nathaniel Hawthorne: Howe's Masquerade (1838) The Birthmark (1843) Francis Bret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869) Robert Louis Stevenson: The Sire de Malétroit's Door (1878) Markheim (1885) Rudyard Kipling: Wee Willie Winkie (1888)

A classic supernatural short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving a beautiful landscape garden in the setting.

The Raven is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. Be sure to check out our other books available !

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.  *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. "The Gold-Bug" is a short story by Edgar...

This essential anthology of Poe's critical works features items from the Southern Literary Messenger, Graham's Magazine, and other periodicals, reviewing works by Dickens, Hawthorne, Cooper, and many others. The Theory of Poetry — consisting of "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Rationale of Verse," and "The Poetic Principle" — appears as well. Introduction.

"The Duc de L'Omelette" is a humorous short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier on March 3, 1832, and was subsequently revised a number of times by the author. The Duc de L'Omelette dies while dining on an ortolan, and finds...

"The Duc de L'Omelette" is a humorous short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier on March 3, 1832, and was subsequently revised a number of times by the author. The Duc de L'Omelette dies while dining on an ortolan, and finds...

"The Duc de L'Omelette" is a humorous short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier on March 3, 1832, and was subsequently revised a number of times by the author. The Duc de L'Omelette dies while dining on an ortolan, and finds...

The Assignation is a short story with Gothic touches and a tragic ending. The story was published as The Visionary in January 1834 in Louis A. Godey's monthly magazine, Lady's Book. After Poe revised the story, it was published as The Assignation in the Broadway Journal in June 1845.

Hop-Frog was written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1849. A dwarf is taken from his homeland and becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes. Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for striking his friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta, he dresses them as orangutans for...

Edgar Allan Poe, creador del detective de razonamiento perfecto que siempre descubre al culpable. Arthur Conan Doyle, autor del gran Sherlock Holmes y de su inseparable amigo, el Dr. Watson. G. K. Chesterton, creador del Padre Brown, un sacerdote de gran ingenio al que no se le resiste ningún misterio....

This tale appeared in the New York Sun in 1844 and claimed a group of men successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a new type of balloon. Although the story looked real, it was completely fiction and created entirely from Poe's imagination.

"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy", is an 1842 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He,...