Nuovi racconti straordinari

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Mi trovavo a Parigi nel 18... Dopo una serata scura e tempestosa d'autunno, stavo godendo, in compagnia del mio amico Dupin, la duplice voluttà della meditazione e d'una buona pipa di schiuma, nella sua piccola biblioteca o gabinetto di studio, nel sobborgo SaintGermain, in via Dunot, n. 33 terzo piano. Era più d'un'ora che stavamo là, conservando un profondo silenzio. Chi ci avesse visto ci avrebbe creduti profondamente unicamente occupati delle larghe volute di fumo che impregnavano l'atmosfera della camera. In quanto a me, stavo discutendo fra me e me certi punti su cui avevamo conversato sul principio della serata - riguardo all'affare della via Morgue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789635264971
Publisher:	Booklassic
Publication date:	07/07/2015
Series:	Nuovi racconti straordinari
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	67
File size:	434 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.