Due chiacchiere con la mummia / Some Words with a Mummy

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Il dottor Ponnonner invita il narratore a casa propria per aiutarlo ad analizzare una mummia. Aprendo il primo sarcofago scoprono il nome della mummia, Allamistakeo. Il secondo e il terzo invece rivelano loro il corpo, avvolto in fogli di papiro decorati. Una volta rimosso questo strato, si accorgono che la mummia è conservata in condizioni eccezionalmente buone. Ma quando cominciano gli esperimenti, collegando il corpo all’elettricità, questo prende improvvisamente vita.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788892967649
Publisher:	Leone Editore
Publication date:	10/16/2023
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	767 KB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.