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La caduta della Casa degli Usher e altri racconti
La caduta della Casa degli Usher La verità sulla vicenda del signore Valdemar Il colloquio di Monos e Una Conversazione tra Eiros e Charmion La sepoltura prematura I delitti della Rue Morgue Il manoscritto trovato in una bottiglia Il pozzo e il pendoloUna selezione di alcuni tra i più famosi racconti di Edgar Allan Poe, capolavori del terrore e del mistero, che portano il lettore a spingersi fino ai confini più estremi della paura e della follia. Un’antologia che dimostra il genio di Poe, dove l'acume e la logica sono gli unici strumenti per svelare verità spesso tanto bizzarre quanto terrificanti.
Edgar Allan Poe
Considerato il maggior rappresentante di un nuovo genere letterario, quello cosiddetto “del terrore”, nacque a Boston, nel 1809. Rimasto orfano a due anni, fu allevato dalla famiglia dello zio, di cui volle assumere il cognome, Allan. Tra il 1815 e il 1820 soggiornò in Inghilterra, poi, di nuovo negli Stati Uniti, si iscrisse all’Accademia militare di West Point, ma venne espulso per la sua condotta dissoluta. Dopo un’esistenza difficile e sofferta, morì a Baltimora nel 1849. Di Edgar Allan Poe la Newton Compton ha pubblicato Il corvo e tutte le poesie, Le avventure di Gordon Pym, Tutti i racconti del mistero, dell’incubo e del terrore, Racconti fantastici e grotteschi e il volume unico Tutti i racconti, le poesie e “Gordon Pym”.
Edgar Allan Poe
Considerato il maggior rappresentante di un nuovo genere letterario, quello cosiddetto “del terrore”, nacque a Boston, nel 1809. Rimasto orfano a due anni, fu allevato dalla famiglia dello zio, di cui volle assumere il cognome, Allan. Tra il 1815 e il 1820 soggiornò in Inghilterra, poi, di nuovo negli Stati Uniti, si iscrisse all’Accademia militare di West Point, ma venne espulso per la sua condotta dissoluta. Dopo un’esistenza difficile e sofferta, morì a Baltimora nel 1849. Di Edgar Allan Poe la Newton Compton ha pubblicato Il corvo e tutte le poesie, Le avventure di Gordon Pym, Tutti i racconti del mistero, dell’incubo e del terrore, Racconti fantastici e grotteschi e il volume unico Tutti i racconti, le poesie e “Gordon Pym”.
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157 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 7, 2024
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About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
9,884 books28.8k 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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⭐️⭐️⭐️ – 3 stelle
Alcuni racconti mi hanno davvero colpita, altri un po’ meno. Il libro è molto strano nel complesso, con atmosfere cupe e surreali che ti lasciano un senso di inquietudine. Mi è piaciuto entrare nel mondo di Poe, anche se non sempre è stato facile da seguire. Sicuramente un’esperienza particolare.
⭐️⭐️⭐️ – 3 stelle
Alcuni racconti mi hanno davvero colpita, altri un po’ meno. Il libro è molto strano nel complesso, con atmosfere cupe e surreali che ti lasciano un senso di inquietudine. Mi è piaciuto entrare nel mondo di Poe, anche se non sempre è stato facile da seguire. Sicuramente un’esperienza particolare.
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