Tales of mystery and imagination: Edgar Allan Poe - Rilegato

Poe, Edgar Allan

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ISBN 10: 1509826696 ISBN 13: 9781509826698

Casa editrice: Pan, 2017

Riassunto

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This collection of Poe’s work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe’s writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly insoluble mysteries. ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ are key works in the horror canon, while in the ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ and ‘The Mystery of Marie Roget’ we find the origins modern detective fiction. Collectively, these tales represent the best of Edgar Allan Poe’s prose work before his premature death in 1849.

With an afterword by Jonty Claypole.

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A collection of some of the most imaginative and dramatic stories by Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809. His parents, both touring actors, died before he was three. He was raised by John Allan, a prosperous Virginian merchant. Poe published his first volume of poetry while still a teenager. He worked as an editor for magazines in Philadelphia, Richmond and New York, and achieved respect as a literary critic. In 1836, he married his thirteen year-old cousin. It was only with the publication of The Raven and other Poems in 1845 that he achieved national fame as a writer. Poe died in mysterious circumstances in 1849.

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• Editore: Pan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1509826696
• ISBN 13: 9781509826698
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 455