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Sjenke između svjetlosti i tame
Više od sto sedamdeset godina nakon smrti, Edgar Allan Poe (1809. – 1849.) i dalje je jedan od najpoznatijih predstavnika književnog horora, fantastike i nadnaravnog. Sudeći po prodaji i čitanosti, Poeova popularnost ni u kojem trenutku ne pati od čitateljskih hirova i fluktuacija u trendovima. Dapače, svake godine, i to već kroz tri stoljeća, svjedočimo novim izdanjima njegovih priča, romana i novela.
U zbirci Sjenke između svjetlosti i tame neke se priče pojavljuju po prvi put u hrvatskom prijevodu, a ovo monumentalno izdanje upotpunjeno je fantastičnim ilustracijama nekih od najpoznatijih Poeovih ilustratora i slikara. Koliko je Poe bio vješt u poigravanju s iskonskim strahovima čovječanstva, toliko je bio i izuzetan pisac, a svaka priča u ovoj zbirci malo je književno remek-djelo. Od samog sadržaja i prijevoda, pa do fantastične naslovnice i ilustracija, ova književna poslastica nikoga neće ostaviti ravnodušnim.
U zbirci Sjenke između svjetlosti i tame neke se priče pojavljuju po prvi put u hrvatskom prijevodu, a ovo monumentalno izdanje upotpunjeno je fantastičnim ilustracijama nekih od najpoznatijih Poeovih ilustratora i slikara. Koliko je Poe bio vješt u poigravanju s iskonskim strahovima čovječanstva, toliko je bio i izuzetan pisac, a svaka priča u ovoj zbirci malo je književno remek-djelo. Od samog sadržaja i prijevoda, pa do fantastične naslovnice i ilustracija, ova književna poslastica nikoga neće ostaviti ravnodušnim.
416 pages, Hardcover
Published November 1, 2021
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Edgar Allan Poe
10.4k books29.2k 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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November 2, 2025
This anthology of short stories has a few of the most famous Poe's stories, and honestly I was not impressed. After reading a few, some stories felt repetitive. I understand that it is also about his writing and prose but I expected more based on the few I remember from high school.
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