Coração Delator e Outros Contos (Obras de Edgar Allan Poe Livro 3)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Em "O coração delator", o leitor conhecerá a história de um homem que nega sua loucura e que está decidido a provar que é são. Preocupando-se apenas com os detalhes de um plano perfeito, aos poucos ele mostra como é tênue a linha que separa a sanidade da loucura. Já em o "Encontro marcado", se deliciará com um conto cheio de classe, referências artísticas e mistério. "O poço e pendulo", outro conto aclamado que compõe esse volume, narra o tormento de um personagem e as torturas da Inquisição Espanhola em Toledo. Certamente, pode-se esperar uma leitura empolgante que despertará os mais diversos sentimentos.

Genres: Classics, Short Stories, Fiction, Horror, Novels, Mystery Thriller

120 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 27, 2012

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

[Fanny]

"sei que a perversidade é um dos instintos primitivos do coração humano - uma das faculdades ou sentimentos primários indivisíveis que orientam o caráter do homem"

Esse foi o meu primeiro contato com o Edgar, e nossa, que leitura INCRÍVEL, e a escrita mais ainda, estou apaixono pelo modo como ele escreve, foi uma leitura muito boa e satisfatória. 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[laura ❀]

Difícil (E apaixonante).
Poe é mestre, mas não é pra "iniciantes". Por serem clássicos possuem a escrita mais difícil e arrastada, então são obras para serem apreciadas com calma e serem aproveitadas com o tempo. Não é a toa que Stephen King "bebe da fonte" de Poe, pois ele é simplesmente um mestre. King é icônico, Poe é suprassumo. Ambos estão (com certeza) nos meus tops autores favoritos.

[hernán gómez]

Libro mal estructurado

Es lamentable la configuración del libro, se repiten muy seguido los mismos títulos. Se debe tener cuidado para la venta, es falta de respeto considero.

[Schawn schoepke]

You know I read many of these in high school and I liked them then much more than I did this time around. I had forgotten some of the stories but feel in my older age they could have been culled down. Dont get me wrong though I still enjoyed most of them......