La Lettre Volée

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Dans cette nouvelle, le détective Auguste Dupin est informé par G..., le préfet de police de Paris, qu'une lettre de la plus haute importance a été volée dans le boudoir royal. Le moment précis du vol et le voleur sont connus du policier, mais celui-ci est dans l'incapacité d'accabler le coupable. Malgré des fouilles extremement minutieuses effectuées au domicile du voleur, G... n'a en effet pas pu retrouver la lettre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788828305866
Publisher:	Henri Gallas
Publication date:	04/14/2018
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	407 KB
Language:	French

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.