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Edgar Allan Poe
- GenresClassics
128 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1912
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About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
9,890 books28.6k followersThe name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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March 4, 2024
Der Schreibstil ist zwar echt schön aber leider fand ich in dem Buch nur zwei Kurzgeschichten sehr gut. ,,Das verräterische Herz“ und ,,Die schwarze Katze“ kann man sehr empfehlen der Rest war eher so mittelmäßig oder auch zum weglassen.
April 22, 2025
Kurzgeschichten collection
Der Untergang des Hauses Usher 5/5, Die erstaunlichen Wirkungen des Mesmerismus auf einen Sterbenden & das verräterische herz 4/5, der Mann der Menge 3.5/5 muss ich auch mal irgendwann rereaden, der maelstrom vibey, die Maske dea Todes nicht memorable, aber Die schwarze Katze ist eine disgusting Geschichte und ich hasse Poe dafür
Der Untergang des Hauses Usher 5/5, Die erstaunlichen Wirkungen des Mesmerismus auf einen Sterbenden & das verräterische herz 4/5, der Mann der Menge 3.5/5 muss ich auch mal irgendwann rereaden, der maelstrom vibey, die Maske dea Todes nicht memorable, aber Die schwarze Katze ist eine disgusting Geschichte und ich hasse Poe dafür
November 9, 2024
Es war ok gewesen.....
Die Zeichnungen gefallen mir.
Meine Lieblingsgeschichten waren :
Das verräterische Herz
Die schware Katze
Die Maske des Roten Todes
Die restlichen Geschichten waren nicht so meins.
Die Zeichnungen gefallen mir.
Meine Lieblingsgeschichten waren :
Das verräterische Herz
Die schware Katze
Die Maske des Roten Todes
Die restlichen Geschichten waren nicht so meins.
June 15, 2011
Harter Tobak. Ziemlich cool, aber als Bettlektüre ungeeignet.
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