Poe Edgar: 1724 books

The narrator is invited by a doctor to witness the unwrapping of a mummy at a private residence. After arriving, he and the assembled group of excited men begin opening the sarcophagus and eventually unveil the mummified body, which appears to be surprisingly well-preserved. After some hours of examine...

"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt". These stories are...

A humorous story of a conversation with a mummy written by Edgar Allan Poe. Rewritten in modern English to make it an easy read. Don't waist time trying to look up every word. There is no need for a dictionary or reference material.

A humorous story of a conversation with a mummy written by Edgar Allan Poe. Rewritten in modern English to make it an easy read. Don't waist time trying to look up every word. There is no need for a dictionary or reference material.

A humorous story of a conversation with a mummy written by Edgar Allan Poe. Rewritten in modern English to make it an easy read. Don't waist time trying to look up every word. There is no need for a dictionary or reference material.

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

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own...

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Margaret Naudi. The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night . . . is...

"MS. Found in a Bottle" is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. 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.",...

After setting sail on from South Carolina aboard the ship “Independence”, the unnamed narrator is informed that an old college friend—Cornelius Wyatt—is also aboard with his wife, two sisters, and a large, mysterious box. One night the narrator witnesses Wyatt’s hideous wife leaving the...

"En parlant du Principe poétique, je n'ai pas la prétention d'être ou complet ou profond. En discutant à l'aventure de ce qui constitue l'essence de ce qu'on appelle Poésie, le principal but que je me propose est d'appeler l'attention sur quelques-uns des petits poèmes anglais ou américains...

No conto Os assassinatos da rua Morgue (The Murders in the Rue Morgue) Edgar Allan Poe conta a história do assassinato brutal de duas mulheres em Paris. Envolto em mistério, o crime tornou-se um grande desafio para a polícia, sendo desvendado apenas por Auguste Dupin, um homem tão enigmático...

Vie d’Edgar Allan Poe  L’inhumation prématurée  L’homme sans souffle  Une mystification  Le philosophe Bon-Bon  La découverte de Von Kempelen  Un entrefilet aux X  La caisse oblongue  Ne pariez jamais votre tête au diable  Le journal de Julius Rodman  Marginalia 

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...