Le Chat noir et autres récits fantastiques

by Edgar Allan Poe

Le chat noir .
William Wilson
Metzengerstein
Liange du bizane
Le ccrur rOélateur
Bérénice -
La chute de la Maison Usher - -
Morella
Ligeia
Le portrait ovale
Les souvenirs de M. Auguste Bedloe
Le masque de la Mort Rouge
Silence
La barrique diamontillado .
Manuscrit trouve dans une bouteille
La vérité sur le cas de M. Valdemar -
Révélation magnétique
Le systeme du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume .
Le puits et le rvndule

233 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published May 14, 1987

About the author

The 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.

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Reviews

[Simon Taillefer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Plusieurs récits légendaires et d’horreurs d’Edgar Allan Poe regroupés dans ce merveilleux livre. Lecture parfaite à lire en automne avant l’Halloween!

[Babeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

J'ai lu des nouvelles d'Allan Poe quand j'étais au collège: Je me souvenais que c'était bien écrit... Mais j'avais oublié qu'il était un tel maitre de l'horreur : Oui, c'était palpitant, malaisant, et ça faisait vraiment peur!
C'était bien.

[noëmie (taylor's version) · Rating 5 out of 5]

J'avais déjà lu en classe de première "Le Cœur Révélateur" en anglais et j'avais bien apprécié ! L'univers d'Edgar Allan Poe est vraiment unique, c'est sombre et bizarre et intrigant à la fois !