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The crimes of morgue Street
The Morgue Street Murders, also known as The Morgue Street Murders or The Rue Morgue Murders, is a tale of the crime and horror genre by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in Graham's Magazine , from Philadelphia, in the month of April 1841. It is the first detective story properly speaking in the history of literature, that is, the first story about detectives that has all the elements that will later be retaken as characteristic of detective novels.
39 pages, Paperback
Published February 7, 2021
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Edgar Allan Poe
10.7k books29.6k 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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January 9, 2024
3.5 plus an 1 point of bonus, because however... unanticipated the ending was, it was still quite unanticipated and hilarious.
October 23, 2022
Wtf lo mejor que he leído de este hombre 😭mencanta
October 14, 2024
O segundo conto que leio do autor. Na onda do antecessor, mas mais envolvente.
A Madame L’Espanaye e a sua filha, Camille, foram mortas no 4.º andar de um edifício do Bairro St. Roch. O inspetor Dupin dá mostras da sua infalível capacidade de perscrutar nas janelas abertas que são o coração do Homem, como Poe diz algures, encetando num prólogo acerca das probabilidades matemáticas de um crime ser assim, cometido, ou assado, resolvido.
Ao contrário do que se sucedeu no conto anterior (perscrutem no meu feed para perceberem a qual me refiro), a estória criminal neste pareceu-me mais apelativa, embora menos verosímil. Consegui catapultar-me para o espaço e para as personagens de forma não forçada, o que já quer dizer muito.
Na verdade, este livro é um dois em um, uma vez que as últimas 20 páginas retratam outro crime, de cariz político, que, lido à luz dos 180 anos que distam a realidade da escrita e a da minha leitura, o faz parecer perfeitamente atual.
Terei de aprofundar a minha leitura em Poe em obras consagradas para tecer considerações mais precisas (apesar de sempre subjetivas) a respeito do autor.
Como disse na obra anterior. Um par de contos que entretém, mas que não leva a navegar para as águas da vida e da humanidade que comporta e é comportada por aquela. Mantenho a imagem dos crimes e das crónicas introduzidas pela CMTV no telespectador.
A Madame L’Espanaye e a sua filha, Camille, foram mortas no 4.º andar de um edifício do Bairro St. Roch. O inspetor Dupin dá mostras da sua infalível capacidade de perscrutar nas janelas abertas que são o coração do Homem, como Poe diz algures, encetando num prólogo acerca das probabilidades matemáticas de um crime ser assim, cometido, ou assado, resolvido.
Ao contrário do que se sucedeu no conto anterior (perscrutem no meu feed para perceberem a qual me refiro), a estória criminal neste pareceu-me mais apelativa, embora menos verosímil. Consegui catapultar-me para o espaço e para as personagens de forma não forçada, o que já quer dizer muito.
Na verdade, este livro é um dois em um, uma vez que as últimas 20 páginas retratam outro crime, de cariz político, que, lido à luz dos 180 anos que distam a realidade da escrita e a da minha leitura, o faz parecer perfeitamente atual.
Terei de aprofundar a minha leitura em Poe em obras consagradas para tecer considerações mais precisas (apesar de sempre subjetivas) a respeito do autor.
Como disse na obra anterior. Um par de contos que entretém, mas que não leva a navegar para as águas da vida e da humanidade que comporta e é comportada por aquela. Mantenho a imagem dos crimes e das crónicas introduzidas pela CMTV no telespectador.
January 6, 2025
clásico de poe, personalmente no mi favorito pero chulo :D
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