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(0)Edgar Allan Poe
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Lebooks Editora
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) fue un poeta, escritor, crítico literario y editor estadounidense. Poe fue un extraordinario escritor de cuentos y escribió historias memorables de misterio, terror y detectives, siempre en su estilo único y pionero. En esta edición el lector tendrá el privilegio de conocer tres de los mejores cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe: La Caída de la Casa Usher; El hombre en la multitud y El entierro prematuro. Juntos, estos cuentos...
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Publisher
Mestas Ediciones
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
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Sin duda Edgar Allan Poe pasará a la historia de la literatura por haber conseguido estremecernos con sus historias, con sus relatos y poemas. Poe publicó sesenta y siete cuentos en vida. En el presente libro hemos recopilado aquellos que, por su calidad y el agrado general de la crítica, nos han parecido los más destacables. Naturalmente, no faltan piezas como «Los crímenes de la calle Morgue», una de sus historias más inquietantes...
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It is virtually impossible to overstate Edgar Allan Poe's importance in the field of American literature. He is credited not only with inventing or significantly advancing the short story, detective fiction, and science fiction, but also with being one of the first Americans to pursue a career in writing as a vocation. This comprehensive volume is a career-spanning collection of Poe's stories and poems.
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Publisher
Telltale Weekly
Language
English
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First published in a 1842 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843, The Pit and the Pendulum takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and follows the plight of a prisoner in a cell that has a pit and a pendulum. Unlike many of Poe's short stories, The Pit and the Pendulum does not rely on any supernatural elements to inspire fear but instead uses the narrator's heightened sensory experiences to do so.
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Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories: The Tell Tale Heart (a murder's haunting guilt), The Cask of Amontillado (a story of brilliant revenge), and The Fall of the House of Usher (an ancient house full of very dark secretes). Also included in this collection are The Mask of the Red Death (horrors of 'the Plague'), and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven (a lover's decline into madness)....
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Renegade Arts Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
First published in a 1839 edition of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, The Fall of the House of Usher is the story of the declining physical and psychological health of the residents of the House of Usher-and the way in which the house itself reflects that. Gothic in theme and style, the story is an exemplar of Poe's philosophy of composition, which dictates that literary works should be short, methodological, and have a unity of effect wherein all the...
7) The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum & Other Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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Naxos AudioBooks
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English
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Includes: The Fall of the House of Usher · The Pit and the Pendulum · The Black Cat · The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar · The Cask of Amontillado · Ligeia · The Tell-Tale Heart · The Masque of the Red Death · The Premature Burial · The Raven
The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death, and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate unforgettably the unique imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. Unerringly,
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One Voice Recordings
Language
English
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These ten classic works by Edgar Allan Poe treat the listener to tales of horror, of irony and the bizarre, even refreshing touches of humor in the most unlikely settings.
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Publisher
Spotify Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Ten superbly narrated stories that help explain America by America's best writers. Irving's incredible and amusing tale of the archetypal "Rip Van Winkle" relates the story of a man who slept through history. Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage" tells of a young soldier who must struggle with his conscience no matter what the consequences. "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is Mark Twain's hilarious story of a contest to end
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Publisher
Orange Island Book Shop
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
First published in a 1846 edition of Godey's Lady's Book, The Cask of Amontillado is widely considered to be one of the most perfect short stories ever written. Told by the unreliable narrator Montresor-a man who sought vengeance against his acquaintance for an insult that the reader is not privy to-the story details how Montresor accomplished his revenge.
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Publisher
Weathervane Books
Pub. Date
c1935
Language
English
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.' Including Poe's most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate collection of the...
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Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
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'It was unnecessary for all to perish, when, by the death of one, it was possible, and even probable, that the rest might be finally preserved.'
Travelling aboard a whaling vessel, a young stowaway is swept up in myriad misadventures - mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism - narrowly escaping numerous brushes with death. This rousing story of a daring sea voyage also presents its antihero with a host of psychological dilemmas, and offers an important insight...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Resonant with themes of love, loneliness, and death, the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe continues to appeal to modern readers more than 150 years after his death. This edition of The Raven and Other Poems is the work of a master, and includes "The Raven," "Lenore," "Annabel Lee." One of the best-known American writers, Edgar Allan Poe's poetry influenced the American Romantic and French Symbolist movements in the nineteenth century.
HarperPerennial...
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Publisher
Fall River Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems features all of Edgar Allan Poes classic fiction. It includes "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," and other tales of madness and mania, the revenge classics "The Cask of Amontillado" and "Hop Frog", the gothic chillers "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Mask of the Red Death", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and "The Purloined Letter," all featuring detective C. August...
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Sworn soldier volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed...