I delitti della Rue Morgue. Il mistero di Marie Rogêt

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

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 dele vittime e del loro assassino trovano la porta sbarrata dall'interno... Alle origini del giallo moderno, lo straordinario intuito dell'ispettore Auguste Dupin creato da Edgar Allan Poe è al centro di uno dei più celebri racconti brevi del grande scrittore americano. I delitti della Rue Morgue, che si accompagna qui al Mistero di Marie Rogêt, è un esempio dell'originale fusione fra il romanzo gotico e le personalissime interpretazioni delle ossessioni, fobie, labirintici percorsi della psiche che Poe ha saputo rappresentare con tanta intensità.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788844038823
Publisher:	Giunti Demetra
Publication date:	05/12/2010
Sold by:	Giunti
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	952,175
File size:	197 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.