Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe, grandi Classici

Overview

Tales by Edgar Allan Poe: the gold-bug, the black cat, mesmeric revelation lionizing, a descent into the maelström, the colloquy of monos and una, conversation of eiros and charmion, the mystery of marie roget, the purloined letter, the man of the crowd. 

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want. To avoid the mortification consequent upon his disasters, he left New Orleans, the city of his forefathers, and took up his residence at Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, South Carolina....

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788835389231
Publisher:	Grandi Classici
Publication date:	03/19/2020
Series:	Grandi Classici
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	195 KB

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.