Meine schönsten Werke

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Edgar Allan Poe gehört auch heute noch zu den meist gelesenen Autoren überhaupt. Seine Horror- und Kriminalgeschichten gehören zum Besten was Literatur zu bieten hat. Dieser Band umfasst eine Biographie des Autors, über 20 Gedichte, seinen Roman "Arthur Pym", über 50 Erzählungen und seinen Essay "Heureka".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783849615895
Publisher:	Jazzybee Verlag
Publication date:	07/21/2012
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	717
File size:	1 MB
Language:	German

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.