Poe: 1914 books

"MS. Found in a Bottle" is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward, he writes an "MS.",...

This is one of Poe's stories about nature and a quaint cottage that the narrator happens upon. It is very descriptive about his surroundings.

After setting sail on from South Carolina aboard the ship “Independence”, the unnamed narrator is informed that an old college friend—Cornelius Wyatt—is also aboard with his wife, two sisters, and a large, mysterious box. One night the narrator witnesses Wyatt’s hideous wife leaving the...

"En parlant du Principe poétique, je n'ai pas la prétention d'être ou complet ou profond. En discutant à l'aventure de ce qui constitue l'essence de ce qu'on appelle Poésie, le principal but que je me propose est d'appeler l'attention sur quelques-uns des petits poèmes anglais ou américains...

No conto Os assassinatos da rua Morgue (The Murders in the Rue Morgue) Edgar Allan Poe conta a história do assassinato brutal de duas mulheres em Paris. Envolto em mistério, o crime tornou-se um grande desafio para a polícia, sendo desvendado apenas por Auguste Dupin, um homem tão enigmático...

Este volume reúne 33 contos de Poe publicados por ordem cronológica: [1831] Metzengerstein [1832] Silêncio [1833] Um Manuscrito Encontrado numa Garrafa [1834] A Entrevista [1835] Berenice [1835] Morella [1835] O Rei Peste [1835] Um Homem na Lua [1835] A Sombra [1837] Aventuras de Arthur Gordon...

Vie d’Edgar Allan Poe  L’inhumation prématurée  L’homme sans souffle  Une mystification  Le philosophe Bon-Bon  La découverte de Von Kempelen  Un entrefilet aux X  La caisse oblongue  Ne pariez jamais votre tête au diable  Le journal de Julius Rodman  Marginalia 

La Chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) est une nouvelle fantastique écrite par Edgar Allan Poe. Elle fut publiée pour la première fois en septembre 1839 dans la revue littéraire Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. Cette nouvelle figure parmi les textes des Nouvelles histoires...

Edgar Allan Poe's satirical short story about a female writer who is told by her editor that she must kill herself and then record the sensations of her death.

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

Considered to be the first literary detective, C. Auguste Dupin turns his deductive skills to solving two seemingly un-solvable mysteries. In “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” Dupin must deduce the identity of the murderer of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter despite contradictory witnesses and...

Classic / American English There are five stories in this book. ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Barrel of Amontillado’ are stories of madness; ‘The Maelström’ describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in ‘The Murders of the Rue Morgue’ and ‘The Stolen Letter’ meet C. Auguste Dupin, Poe’s famous Parisian detective.

"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). First published in 1849, it is a satire of California Gold Rush and Nineteenth Century American Press.

"Morella" is a short story in the Gothic horror genre by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. An unnamed narrator marries Morella, a woman with great scholarly knowledge who delves into studies of the German philosophers Fichte and Schelling, dealing with the question...