Edgar Allan Poe: 1703 books

"Mesmeric Revelation" is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). First published in 1844, the tale is centered on mesmerist experiments. This edition also contains a long note on Poe's life and work written by French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) in 1852. The essay was translated in English by Henry Curwen (1845-1892) in 1873.

Dieses eBook: "Die Maske des roten Todes (Eine mystische Erzählung)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die Maske des Roten Todes ist eine Erzählung von Edgar Allan Poe. In ihr beschreibt Poe das Scheitern des...

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur.Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.Edgar Allan Poe hat unverkennbare Spuren hinterlassen: Dem Detektivroman prägte...

Hans Pfaal, ein hochverschuldeter Rotterdamer Bürger muss vor seinen Gläubigern fliehen. Er bastelt sich einen Flugapparat und steigt in die Lüfte empor. Seine drei Gläubiger nimmt er gleich mit und benutzt die Gelegenheit, sie schnell ins Jenseits zu befördern. Mit seiner Flugmaschine erreicht...

Die Maske des Roten Todes ist eine Erzählung von Edgar Allan Poe. In ihr beschreibt Poe das Scheitern des Versuchs einer Gruppe von Privilegierten, sich vor einer Seuche, einem Unheil in Sicherheit zu bringen. Ungeachtet der Tatsache, dass eine Krankheit (der Rote Tod) die Hälfte der Untertanen...

This mesmerising, macabre collection contains Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poetry, including 'The Raven', 'Annabel Lee' and 'Lenore', and a selection of his very best stories, along with his finest tales from the last decade of his tragically short life. Many of these stories and poems explore the...

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1839. The tale begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking...

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, critic, short story writer, best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre. "The Cask of Amontillado" is the short story, first published in 1846. The action happens in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year; the story is...

After reading an 1836 newspaper account of a shipwreck and its two survivors, Edgar Allan Poe penned his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, the story of a stowaway on a Nantucket whaleship who finds himself enmeshed in the dark side of life at sea: mutiny, cannibalism, savagery—even...

Poe was a prolific writer of science fiction and supernatural tales, responding in his writing to numerous emerging technologies. He often included elements of popular pseudo-sciences, dealing with themes such as time travel and resurrection of the dead. Table of Contents: Ms. Found in a Bottle The...

Tales, by Edgar Allan Poe, is a collection of 25 stories from the literary father of the mysterious and the macabre. These individual pieces, which include The Fall of the House of Usher, and Silence: A Fable, together make up the body of both Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque and Tales of the...

The haunting poems of Edgar Allan Poe come to life in this comprehensive volume. Collected here are such American classics as "The Rave," "Annabel Lee," and "The Bells." Touching on death, passion, and loneliness, Poe speaks out to us with lyrical beauty from across the ages.

Four Beasts in One by classic Romantic/Gothic author Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is considered by many to be the father of the Romantic Gothic Literary movement and he wrote over 70 short stories, all of which are more popular today than when he originally wrote them.

Four Beasts in One by classic Romantic/Gothic author Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is considered by many to be the father of the Romantic Gothic Literary movement and he wrote over 70 short stories, all of which are more popular today than when he originally wrote them.