Edgar Poe: 1724 books

Edgar Allan  Poe  (Boston, 19 janvier 1809 – Baltimore, 7 octobre 1849) est un poète, romancier,nouvelliste, critique littéraire, dramaturge et éditeur américain, ainsi que l'une...

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,...

The only complete novel written by Edgar Allan Poe which follows life of the young Arthur Gordon Pym aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism befall Pym, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures further south.

Extrait de ce classique populaire d'EDGAR POE : Il y a peu de personnes, même parmi les penseurs les plus calmes, qui n'aient été quelquefois[p. 2] envahies par une vague mais saisissante demi-croyance au surnaturel, en face de certaines coïncidences d'un caractère en apparence si merveilleux,...

Si spectres et esprits ont peuplé la littérature de tous les temps, à la fin du XIXe siècle naît une autre sorte de hantise, celle du fantôme. Dans cet ouvrage, les manifestations surnaturelles se succèdent avec Poe, Villiers, Lorrain, Rodenbach, Dujardin, Huysmans. Que l'on ne s'y trompe pas,...

I AM a business man. I am a methodical man. Method is the thing, after all. But there are no people I more heartily despise than your eccentric fools who prate about method without understanding it; attending strictly to its letter, and violating its spirit. These fellows are always doing the most out-of-the-way...

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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

Ligeia, a beautiful, passionate and intellectual woman, raven-haired and dark-eyed. The narrator is unable to recall anything about the history of Ligeia, including her family's name, but remembers her beautiful appearance. Her beauty, however, is not conventional. He describes her as emaciated, with...

Our narrator plots to murder an old man, though the narrator states that he loves the old man, and hates only his evil pale blue eye. The narrator insists that his careful precision in committing the murder shows that he cannot possibly be insane. For seven nights, the narrator opens the door of the...

PRESUME everybody has heard of me. My name is the Signora Psyche Zenobia. This I know to be a fact. Nobody but my enemies ever calls me Suky Snobbs. I have been assured that Suky is but a vulgar corruption of Psyche, which is good Greek, and means “the soul” (that’s me, I’m all soul) and sometimes...

ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel. This honor is, however, more properly attributable to Cambyses, the son of Cyrus. And, indeed, the character of the Syrian monarch does by no means stand in need of any adventitious embellishment. His accession to the...

Our pet-loving narrator injures his black cat under heavy influence of alcohol. From that moment onward, the cat flees in terror at his master's approach but this does not save Pluto from his master and eventually leads to Pluto's death and a mysterious house fire. The mystery does not end there and...

William Legrand becomes obsessed with searching for treasure after being bitten by a bug appearing to be made of pure gold. He notifies his closest friend, the narrator, telling him to immediately come visit him at his home on Sullivan's Island in South Carolina. Upon the narrator's arrival, Legrand...