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Opowieści kryminalne i tajemnicze
Oto jedna z najobszerniejszych polskich edycji opowiadań Edgara Allana Poe: trzydzieści siedem utworów w klasycznych przekładach i w unikalnym wyborze, obejmującym teksty niewznawiane od przedwojnia. Są wśród nich piękne i mroczne opowiadania miłosne: Morella, Ligeja, Eleonora; ironiczne moralitety o winie i karze, zbrodni i zemście, okrucieństwie i sumieniu: Bies przewrotności, Czarny kot, Beczka Amontillado, Serce – oskarżycielem; opowieści o zagadkach i tajemnicach świata, życia i śmierci: Złoty żuk, Zabójstwo przy Rue Morgue, Opowieść Artura Gordona Pyma z Nantucket; groteski, makabreski i mistyfikacje. Po raz pierwszy w Polsce ozdobą opowiadań Edgara Allana Poe są wyjątkowe ilustracje wybitnego irlandzkiego artysty, który jak mało kto odczuł ducha jego twórczości: Harry’ego Clarke’a.
315 pages, Paperback
First published September 19, 2012
About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
10.5k books29.3k 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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May 4, 2024
Opowieści kryminalne naprawdę udane, mocno podkreślające wagę rozumu w rozwiązywaniu zagadek. Ważne dla gatunku. Natomiast opowiadania tajemnicze trochę przypominały mi straszne historie opowiadane sobie przez dzieci na koloniach. Byłam trochę zawiedziona, ale to chyba kwestia moich oczekiwań.
July 30, 2022
3.5 ☆
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