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(0)Edgar Allan Poe
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A classic horror tale from the iconic gothic author and the inspiration for the Netflix series from the creator of The Haunting of Hill House.
As The Fall of the House of Usher opens, an unnamed narrator has been summoned by his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, who has succumbed to a mysterious illness and longs for companionship. Upon first glance of the gloomy family mansion, the narrator is plunged into an unnerving depression, a dread...
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Edgar Allan Poe's ‘Complete Poetical Works' is an elegant edition boasting the entire Poe catalog. It features works from the famous gothic American writer. His works span the years from 1827 to his death in 1849.
This treasure book collects all of Poe's poetry in a single volume, some of the most evocative poetry in the English language.
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.' Including Poe's most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate collection of the...
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En Narraciones extraordinarias encontramos los conocidos relatos breves del escritor norteamericano Edgar Allan Poe, de temperamento turbulento y morboso. Soñador y extraño a lo corriente, Poe consigue crearse un mundo irreal en el que el horror fantástico no excluye la lucidez, que expresa perfectamente con su admirable estilo, puro y atrevido. A su análisis vigoroso y minucioso se une en Poe una imaginación fecunda. En sus narraciones, oscilando...
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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 old man's room, in order to shine a sliver of light onto the evil eye. However, the old man's vulture eye is always closed, making it impossible to do...
8) O Corvo
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) foi um poeta, escritor, crítico literário e editor norte-americano. Poe foi um extraordinário poeta e contista e produziu obras memoráveis, sempre com seu estilo único e pioneiro. Nesta edição o leitor conhecerá o poema narrativo O Corvo (The Raven), uma obra de Allan Poe que assombra gerações desse 1845 e imortalizou o nome de Edgar Alan Poe. Traduzida para quase todos os idiomas, a história do amante enlutado...
10) Ligeia
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El narrador anónimo describe las cualidades de Ligeia, una mujer hermosa, apasionada e intelectual de pelo negro y ojos oscuros, que conoció en "una vieja y ruinosa ciudad cercana al Rin". Se casan, pero después de unos años Ligeia muere; el narrador, desconsolado, se muda a Inglaterra donde compra y reforma una abadía. Pronto entra en un matrimonio sin amor con "lady Róvena Trevanion de Tremaine, de rubios cabellos y ojos azules".
11) König Pest
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Die Geschichte spielt während der Zeit der Pest im 14. Jahrhundert in London. Der lange dürre Legs und der untersetzte dicke Hugh Tarpaulin, beides Seemänner, prellen in einer Londoner Kneipe die Zeche und flüchten vor dem Wirt. Betrunken und voller Angst verbergen beide sich im verbotenen Sperrbezirk, in dem die Pest herrscht…
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The only full-length novel by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" was first published in 1838. It is the story of a boy from Nantucket, Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship, the "Grampus", with the help of his friend Augustus, the ship captain's son. Pym and Augustus experience many unexpected adventures and misfortunes at sea, including mutiny, violent storms, cannibalism, and the destruction of the ship. Eventually,...
13) Le Chat Noir
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Un homme aime les animaux et les chérit du même amour qu'il témoigne à sa femme. Il adopte des oiseaux, un poisson doré, un beau chien, des lapins, un petit singe, et même un chat nommé Pluton - un chat noir, doux et délicat.
Puis vient l'alcool.
L'homme devient irritable, morne. Il ne caresse plus ses animaux. Il les frappe, comme il frappe bientt son épouse. Et il hait son chat noir.
Une nuit, alors qu'il rentre chez lui ivre, il empoigne...
14) The Assignation
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ILL-FATED and mysterious man!—bewildered in the brilliancy of thine own imagination, and fallen in the flames of thine own youth! Again in fancy I behold thee! Once more thy form hath risen before me!—not—oh not as thou art—in the cold valley and shadow—but as thou shouldst be—squandering away a life of magnificent meditation in that city of dim visions, thine own Venice—which is a star-beloved Elysium of the sea, and the wide windows
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La maison des Usher se dresse devant lui. Les murs sont gris et froids, les fenêtres plongent leur regard vide dans un lac lugubre, et les troncs blancs et dépéris parsèment une terre sombre et désolée.
L'invité rend visite à un vieil ami, Roderick Usher. Ce dernier est atteint d'une grave maladie physique et d'un désordre mental qui l'oppresse. Et puis, il y a la sœur jumelle de Roderick, Madeline Usher, qui doit être conservée pendant...
16) Morella
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El narrador protagonista cuenta la historia de su matrimonio con Morella, una culta y extraña mujer que lee y profundiza en las prohibidas páginas del misticismo y el ocultismo. Sus sentimientos por ella siempre fueron extraños y confusos, y a pesar de una admiración creciente por ella, el hombre desea la muerte de su esposa. Morella muere durante el parto, pero su alma, atada a diabólicos ritos, reencarna en el cuerpo de su hija, para vengar...
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The narrator explains at length his theory on which he believes causes people to commit acts against their self-interest. This essay-like discussion is presented objectively, though the narrator admits that he is "one of the many uncounted victims of the "Imp of the Perverse". He then explains how his conviction for murder was the result of this. The narrator murders a man using a candle that emits a poisonous vapor. The victim enjoyed reading in...
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When Poe takes us to sea, we get sucked in.
In "A Descent into the Maelstrom" (1841) Poe's narrator recounts his horrific experience when he and his brother's boat get sucked down in the world's fastest moving current of water, the tumultuous maelstrom known as Moskenesstraumen.
Constructed as a story within a story, "A Descent into the Maelström" is a beautiful and gripping tale about the rough life on the seven seas told in the manner of Coleridge's...
19) Il Gatto Nero
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Un gatto nero e un assassino, la follia, l'occulto. Impiccare un gatto domestico può rivelarsi controproducente, specialmente per un uomo dalla sanità in bilico tra l'alcolismo e l'ossessione. Presagi di sventura sui muri, visioni mistiche, ritorni dall'oltretomba - cosa, esattamente, sta succedendo in questa casa di campagna? Un continuo sprofondare nel baratro, un graduale abbandono della ragione a favore dell'oscurità della mente.
20) Metzengerstein
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This short story, told in the Gothic tradition represents Poe's first work to be printed, and represents the foundation of what would constitute much of his future work. The tale, set in Hungary, recounts the later years of an interminable feud between two noble houses, the Metzengersteins and the Berlifitzings. This third person narration follows the young orphaned Baron of the Metzengersteins, Frederick, as he inherits his family's fortune and their...