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Le scarabée d'or, suivi de La lettre volée
Etrange scarabe, en vrit, qui ressemble une tte de mort. Couleur d'or avec des taches d'un noir de jais figurant les orbites et la bouche dente. Tout autre que Legrand y verrait un mauvais prsage. Mais lui, qui s'est exil sur l'le Sullivan, se met soudain croire en sa bonne fortune. A peine l'a-t-il dcouvert dans le sable que le mystrieux insecte le propulse sur la trace du capitaine Kidd. Une course au trsor dont il devra toutefois rsoudre l'nigme... Enigme galement, la disparition de cette lettre drobe en haut lieu par un ministre indlicat. Le prfet de police sait qu'il la dissimule dans son htel, mais toutes les recherches entreprises l'insu de l'odieux personnage restent vaines. Or la solution crve les yeux... Mais, feuilleter l'album de Poe, on ctoie tout naturellement l'extraordinaire.
- GenresFranceRomanShort Stories
90 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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Edgar Allan Poe
9,941 books28.9k 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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August 31, 2022
Je n'ai pas vraiment apprécié ce livre, heureusement la lecture fût rapide. Il est composé de 2 petites histoires intéressantes mais sans plus, on sent que c'est un livre d'époque avec des termes compliqué et du vocabulaires peut apprécier de nos jours.
January 31, 2024
La morale de l'histoire c'est que les hyperfixations ça a du bon
August 3, 2023
mieux que l’autre
histoires plus accès mystères/enquêtes et des petits plots twists j’aime bien
histoires plus accès mystères/enquêtes et des petits plots twists j’aime bien
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November 30, 2020Histoires étonnantes, pour ne pas dire ubuesques ou désopilantes et passionnantes ! Il y a du polar, de la fantaisie, de la science-fiction. Ravie de découvrir cet auteur sur le tard. Mon ouvrage contenait aussi "L'aventure sans pareille d'un certain Hans Pfall", un voyage terre-lune pensé au XIXe siecle avec moults détails scientifiques, scotchant !
August 12, 2021
Univers charmant et bien décris, belles intrigues, mais rapidement résolu et brusquement ! Ceci dit des personnages intéressant, qui vous serez familiers puisqu'ils ont inspiré Sherlock et Waston !
March 5, 2015
alaways enjoy Edgar Allan poe's stories , loved this one .
July 25, 2016
une (ou deux) histoire étrange qui me semble pourtant avoir bien vieillie.
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