Poe: 1914 books

Book cover of The Assignation
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018

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.
Book cover of The Sphinx
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018

The Sphinx is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe about a man who decides to visit a relative living near the Hudson River north of New York City for two weeks during a cholera epidemic that occurred during the summer of 1832. One day during this visit, the man is reading a book near the window...
Book cover of The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018

The tale depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story. While the King is uncertain — except in the case of the elephants carrying the world on the back of the turtle...
Book cover of La Chute de la maison Usher
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: French
Release Date: July 2, 2019

La Chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) est une nouvelle fantastique écrite par Edgar Allan Poe. Elle fut publiée pour la première fois en septembre 1839 dans la revue littéraire Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. Cette nouvelle figure parmi les textes des Nouvelles histoires...
Book cover of Petite discussion avec une momie
by Edgar Poe, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: French
Release Date: July 27, 2015

Conte fantastique paru en 1845 dans The American review et traduit vingt ans plus tard par Charles Baudelaire, Petite discussion avec une momie est un pur moment de plaisir farfelu. Un petit groupe de savants ramène à la vie une momie et entame avec elle une discussion, ou plutôt une compétition,...
Book cover of Le Masque de la Mort Rouge
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: French
Release Date: August 21, 2017

Le Masque de la mort rouge (en anglais : The Masque of the Red Death) est une nouvelle d'Edgar Allan Poe publiée pour la première fois en mai 1842 dans le Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine sous le titre The Mask of the Red Death, avec le sous-titre A Fantasy. Une version révisée...
Book cover of Metzengerstein
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2015

Metzengerstein, sous-titré dès la seconde édition « un conte imité de l'allemand » (en anglais, Metzengerstein. A Tale in Imitation of the German) est la première nouvelle de l'écrivain américain Edgar Allan Poe à être publiée. Elle se déroule en Hongrie dans une ambiance gothique et...
Book cover of Le Démon de la Perversité
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: French
Release Date: August 19, 2017

Le Démon de la perversité (en anglais The Imp of the Perverse) est une nouvelle qui se présente sous la forme d'un essai écrit par l'auteur et critique américain Edgar Allan Poe. Il traite des impulsions autodestructrices du narrateur qui incarne la métaphore symbolique du démon de...
Book cover of Lionizing
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018

A rare comedic short story by Edgar Allan Poe about a young man who has an infatuation with noses.
Book cover of Von Kempelen and His Discovery
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018

"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). First published in 1849, it is a satire of California Gold Rush and Nineteenth Century American Press.
Book cover of Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and Other Tales (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011

This 1900 collection features Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, a remarkable work of disturbing gothic fiction which influenced science fiction’s development as well as the work of Jules Verne and Herman Melville.  The tale follows a young boy, Pym, and his friend, Augustus,...
Book cover of How to Write a Blackwood Article
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

Edgar Allan Poe's satirical short story about a female writer who is told by her editor that she must kill herself and then record the sensations of her death.
Book cover of Von Kempelen and His Discovery
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). First published in 1849, it is a satire of California Gold Rush and Nineteenth Century American Press.
Book cover of How to Write a Blackwood Article
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018

Edgar Allan Poe's satirical short story about a female writer who is told by her editor that she must kill herself and then record the sensations of her death.
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