Knihy od: Poe, E. A.

Two cases of detection for Monsieur Auguste C. Dupin, Poe’s great detective. Who could have committed the atrocious murders in the Rue Morgue and so how did the murderer get in, or out? Will Dupin find the purloined letter and save the royal personage? Where is the minister hiding it?

The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed through, despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. Over time his works have influenced such major creative...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe '... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...' Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces...

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...

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the earliest pioneers of the short story and perfected the tale of psychological horror. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse dramas and some of the most evocative poetry in the English language. This...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the first masters of modern short stories and modernist poetry. But he is best remembered for his strange style of horror, with characters who cannot be forgotten. A man who drains away his wife’s life to make his painting seem alive; an animal lover...

Found in a Bottle,

Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe's verse in this complete poetry collection. Although best known for his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe was by nature and choice a poet. From his exquisite lyric "To Helen,” to his immortal masterpieces, "Annabel Lee,” "The...

There are five stories in this book. ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Barrel of Amontillado’ are stories of madness; ‘The Maelström’ describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in ‘The Murders of the Rue Morgue’ and ‘The Stolen Letter’ meet C. Auguste...

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works...

Two cases of detection for Monsieur Auguste C. Dupin, Poe

Parigi 1841, rione Saint-Roche: al quarto piano di un appartamento della Rue Morgue vengono orrendamente trucidate l´anziana madame L´Espanaye e sua figlia Camille. I soccorritori, richiamati dalle grida delle vittime e del loro assassino trovano la porta sbarrata dall´interno. Alle origini del giallo moderno, lo straordinario intuito dell´ispettore Auguste Dupin...

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe´s extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe´s tales are works of...

A unique one volume collection of all Poe´s best tales and poems. Full of variety, entries include The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter - three classic detective stories - plus The Raven, one of his greatest poems. A wonderful selection of tales...

I racconti, per indicazione dell´autore stesso, si dividono in grotteschi e fantastici (o dell´arabesco), pi un gruppetto che possono essere definiti polizieschi. Nei primi Poe riprende alcuni dei modelli dell´umorismo americano: le estreme esagerazioni, il gioco di parole, la seriet che maschera la burla. Le sue storie sono...

´The Black Cat´ seeks revenge on its cruel master; a young wife has the life drained out of her by her insensitive artist husband in ´The Oval Portrait´; and the beating heart of a dead man exposes the killer to the police in The ´Tell-Tale Heart´.

Two cases of detection for Monsieur Auguste C. Dupin, Poe

The Portable Poe compiles Poe´s greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world´s first detective story. In addition, this volume offers...

This volume contains Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poetry, a selection of his very best stories along with his finest tales from the last decade of his tragically short life.

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...