Edgar Allan Poe

A beautiful gift edition of three macabre mysteries featuring the first and greatest of detectives, Auguste Dupin
An apartment on the rue Morgue turned into a charnel house; the corpse of a shopgirl dragged from the Seine; a high-stakes game of political blackmail - three mysteries that have enthralled the whole of Paris, and baffled the city's police. The brilliant Chevalier Auguste Dupin investigates - can he find the solution where...

The Library of America presents “the first truly dependable collection of Poe’s poetry and tales”—featuring well-known works like ‘The Raven’ and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, plus a selection of rarely published writings (New York Review of Books).
Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry is famous both for the musicality of “To Helen” and “The City in the Sea” and...

Edgar Allen Poe is regarded as one of the greatest American writers and a pioneer of the horror genre, and this collection brings together some of his most celebrated tales. Themes of guilt, fear and revenge abound as the master of gothic horror transports readers to mysterious worlds, carries them on dangerous sea voyages, and investigates gruesome murders. Exploring the hidden depths of the human mind, these are tales full of thrills and intrigue. Includes: •...

"¡Bienvenido a otro volumen de la Colección Mejores! Cuentos, una selección de relatos escritos en diferentes épocas por autores de diversas nacionalidades y con temas muy variados, pero que comparten una cualidad literaria enorme y quizás la más importante: la de brindar placer al lector. En esta preciosa edición de la Colección Mejores Cuentos, el lector encontrará las mejores historias de Edgar Allan Poe, los clásicos de suspenso y terror...

Perché Roderick Usher gli ha inviato quella richiesta urgente? Perché lo vuole presso la sua dimora in rovina? Questi sono gli interrogativi che accompagnano il narratore fino alla casa Usher.
Ma altre e ben più inquietanti domande si affolleranno nella sua testa incontrando il suo amico d'infanzia e la sorella gemella, divorati da un male misterioso che sembra aleggiare tra le pareti della casa.
Basterà la razionalità...

Poe was essentially the product of his time. The intellectual activity which characterized the educated class in this country before 1860 was no sporadic instance, but the logical result of influences which belong to universal history. For example, when Goethe made his discovery of the unity of structure in organic life, it gave to the philosophers a physiological argument for the suppression of tyrants, and put the whole of creation on an equal footing....

Durante il viaggio in mare a bordo della Independence, l'anonimo narratore ritrova il vecchio amico Cornelius Wyatt, accompagnato dalla moglie e dalle due sorelle. La cosa strana è che Wyatt si è fatto riservare una stanza in più a bordo dell'imbarcazione: una per le due sorelle e l'altra condivisa con la moglie e una cassa di legno che emana un forte odore. Un racconto esemplare che conferma la maestria di Poe nella narrativa...

"Eleonora" is a short story that draws heavily from E. A. Poe's own life and marriage. Surprisingly optimistic and devoid of any real terrors, the tale, though dealing with similar topics from Poe's previous works, abounds in examples of madness, love, and paradisiacal existence. Once again, the female character is at the centre of Poe's world, structuring the rest around herself and navigating the other characters' lives. One can almost read the...

Teeming with melancholy and vampirism, verging on the sanity's uttermost rim, Poe's characters often fall victims to supernatural happenings. Men wishing for their wife's deaths, doppelgangers and hollow men, or bargains with the Devil – all these elements reveal the need for Poe's protagonists to discuss, mock, and curse their (ab)normal predicaments.The reader is facing the second volume of E. A. Poe's tales. E. A. Poe's immortal heritage in the...

From the mysterious marriage in "Morella", to the satirical and secretive vistas of "The Man That Was Used Up", or the depressed Roderick Usher, the reader is facing the first volume of E. A. Poe's tales. Teeming with melancholy and vampirism, verging on the sanity's uttermost rim, Poe's characters often fall victims to supernatural happenings. Men wishing for their wife's deaths, doppelgangers and hollow men, or bargains with the Devil – all these...