Il pozzo e il pendolo. Il gatto nero

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Questa edizione contiene due fra le più celebri narrazioni di Edgar Allan Poe. Il pozzo e il pendolo è un racconto “spaventoso”, in senso letterale: suscita inevitabile paura al lettore, grazie soprattutto alla magistrale esaltazione delle percezioni sensoriali. Il gatto nero è un breve racconto horror: la storia di un misterioso gatto nero che resuscita e si vendica della crudeltà del suo perverso padrone.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788832513202
Publisher:	Tiemme Edizioni Digitali
Publication date:	02/10/2019
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB
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.