Short Stories. Opowiadania

by Edgar Allan Poe

Short Stories. Opowiadania

178 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

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

[Martyna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tańczące orangutany😭🙏🏻

[CapsLock · Rating 3 out of 5]

Książka zawiera trzy opowiadania: Morderstwo przy rue Morgue, Tajemnica Marii Roget oraz Skradziony list. Każde z nich oferuje coś innego oraz kończy się inaczej. Język angielski zawarty w książce najłatwiejszy nie jest, jednak patrząc, że to oryginał, będzie raczej taki. Książka momentami nudzi lub opisy przemyśleń czasami wydłużają opowiadanie, jednak sama fabuła wydaje się ciekawa

[gaja_a · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars

[ciper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kunszt Poego w tej książce nie zawodzi. Fajną możliwością jest także angielskie opracowanie co daje pogląd na to jakim językiem operował w oryginale jednak jest on dla mnie za trudny🥲
Mimo wszystko, dobrze się przy niej bawiłam

[Julia Mazurkiewicz · Rating 2 out of 5]

chyba za młoda na to jestem

[Filip · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.75

[toriixx · Rating 4 out of 5]

orangunat top

[Książkowy Zakątek Julki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pierwsze spotkanie z tym autorem. Polecam!

[Glao · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ta jedna gwiazdka za opowiadanie o tej żabie

[Dorian · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5 takie okok

[Julia Popławska · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75⭐️

[robert lewandowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

„Morderstwa przy rue morgue” i „Złoty żuk” totalnie super, te trzy krótsze takie meh ale te właśnie dwa dłuższe?? damn strasznie lubię jak ktoś właśnie krok po kroku opisuje etapy dedukcji itd więc przypadły mi do gustu