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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

William Wilson is classic American horror short story by Edgar Allan Poe that includes the following excerpt: "Let me call myself, for the present, William Wilson. The fair page now lying before me need not be sullied with my real appellation. This has been already too much an object for the scorn-for the horror-for the detestation of my race."

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

El protagonista, Arthur Gordon Pym, se embarca clandestinamente en el barco ballenero Grampus. Tras muchas experiencias y desgracias (motines, naufragios, canibalismo, guerras con nativos) que ponen en riesgo su vida, se interna en parajes prodigiosos de los mares antárticos, hasta que sufre una sobrecogedora revelación con la que culmina la historia. La narración de Arthur Gordon Pym es una de las obras más controvertidas, extrañas y enigmáticas de su autor, contándose entre los excelentes títulos poeanos de tema marinero, junto a Manuscrito encontrado en una botella, La caja oblonga y Un descenso al Maelström. Se trata de una novela de aventuras de tipo episódico, centrada muy directamente en el intrépido protagonista que le da título, personaje que encontraría eco posteriormente en las obras de Robert Louis Stevenson (Secuestrado, La isla del tesoro, Los hombres alegres, etc.). En esta obra, Poe, a bordo del Grampus, se deja llevar en alas de su desenfrenada imaginación a regiones mentales y literarias que nunca antes había hollado -de ahí el absorbente interés que han mostrado por la pieza desde los escritores surrealistas hasta los psicoanalistas literarios de toda condición-. La fantástica peripecia se desborda en manos del autor, tanto que apenas da respiro al lector entre secuencia y secuencia (la acción apenas articula tiempos muertos de enlace), cosa que se ha achacado al autor como defecto estructural.

Quote the Raven includes seven of Poe's best, and most well-known works. There are six short stories in this collection: The Black Cat, The Cask Of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (which is widely regarded as the first modern detective story), The Purloined Letter, and The Tell-Tale Heart. This "Best of" collection also includes Poe's narrative poem, The Raven.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems. Essays On The Poet's Art; [Howard Collection]; Volume 1 Of The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe; Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe null G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902

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This, the first volume in the collection of Edgar Allan Poe's works, contains the following stories: The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal, The Gold-Bug, Four Beasts in One-The Homo-Cameleopard, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Balloon-Hoax, Ms. Found In A Bottle, and The Oval Portrait.

Está basado en el asesinato real de Mary Cecilia Rogers, un crimen que paralizó a Nueva York debido a la violencia inusitada que el asesino volcó sobre la joven. Marie Roget era una bella dama que ayudaba a su anciana madre a dirigir una pensión. Su padre había muerto cuando ella era pequeña. A la edad de 22 años entró a trabajar en una perfumería, captando la atención de su empleador y clientes. Su ritmo de vida era normal, hasta que un día desapareció misteriosamente. Segundo de los relatos protagonizados por el detective August C. Dupin, con el que Poe se convirtió en uno de los pioneros de la literatura criminal.

The Gold-Bug is a classic American horror story by Edgar Allan Poe. Let me call myself, for the present, William Wilson. The fair page now lying before me need not be sullied with my real appellation. This has been already too much an object for the scorn-for the horror-for the detestation of my race.

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With his tales of terror Edgar Allan Poe has defined and mastered the short story form. Many of the sixteen tales included here ("The Purloined Letter, The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart") have become landmarks of American literature, as compelling today as when they were written.

The Domain of Arnheim may be Poe's greatest story. Poe himself held it in high esteem. He wrote, " 'The Domain of Arnheim' expresses much of my soul."

"The Business Man" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe about a businessman boasting of his accomplishments. It was published in February 1840 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. The story questions the concept of a self-made man. The narrator of the story is Peter Proffit, a "methodical" businessman by his own admission. He says a nurse swung him around when he was a young boy, and he bumped his head against a bedpost. That single event determined his fate: the resulting bump was in the area dedicated to system and regularity, according to phrenology. Proffit goes on to say that he despises geniuses and that they are all asses-"the greater the genius the greater the ass." Geniuses can not, he says, be turned into men of business. At the age of fourteen, his father forced him to work as a merchant, which Proffit could not stand. He says that though most boys run away from home at the age of twelve, he chose to wait until the age of sixteen. What finally convinced him was his mother's suggestion that he work as a grocer. Instead, he becomes a "Walking-Advertisement" for a tailor. Feeling swindled by his employer over a penny, however, he moves on to start his own business. Proffitgoes into the "Eye-Sore" business. When he sees a large home or palace being built, he buys a nearby or adjoining property and builds a "mud-hovel" or "pig-sty" so ugly that he is paid 500% the value of the lot to tear it down. One owner, however, offers less than 500%. In retaliation, Proffit lamp-blacks the house overnight. For this, he is jailed, and ostracized by others in the Eye-Sore business. Proffit then enters the Assault-and-Battery business. He makes money by starting fights with people on the streets and then sues them for attacking him. He then becomes involved with "Mud-Dabbling," making people pay him not to splash them with mud. He also has a dog rub up against people's shoes to make them dirty, then offers his services as a shoeshiner. Though he gave the dog a third of the profits, the routine split when the dog began to demand half. Proffit then becomes an organ grinder, though he makes money by people paying him to stop rather than to play. He boasts of his own abilities in business and lists his eight "speculations" for success. He then tries forging letters and delivering them to rich people, asking them to pay postage themselves, as was the custom at the time. He says, however, that he had moral issues with this line of work after hearing people say unkind things about the fake people who had written to them.

"The Balloon-Hoax" is the title used in collections and anthologies of a newspaper article written by Edgar Allan Poe. This tale appeared in the New York Sun in 1844 and claimed a group of men successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a new type of balloon. Although the story looked real, it was completely fiction and created entirely from Poe's imagination. The story caused such excitement that a huge crowd gathered in front of the New York Sun office, all trying to buy copies of the newspaper. Keep in mind that no one flew anything on the Atlantic for another 75 years. Earl Ferdinand von Zeppelin built the first zeppelin dirigible in 1900. The Wright brothers made their first successful flight in 1903. British airmen Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop flight in the Atlantic Ocean in 1919. Dr. Hugo Eckener First transatlantic flight Flight in a zeppelin, in 1924. Charles Lindbergh made his famous solo flight in 1927. The first non-human, balloon-carrying globe to actually cross the Atlantic Ocean was "Double Eagle II" in 1978. The globe Reached an altitude of about 25,000 feet, as Poe described. The trip took 6 days.

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

Clearly a literary great, Edgar Allan Poe gave his gift to the world many years ago with this famous short story. Enjoy Poe's imagination as you read this classic. *Large Print *Matte cover and cream pages

Edgar Allan Poe: Wassergrube und Pendel und andere Erzählungen Lesefreundlicher Großdruck in 16-pt-Schrift Edition Holzinger. Großformat, 216 x 279 mm Berliner Ausgabe, 2015 Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Wassergrube und Pendel: Erstdruck in: The Gift, 1843. Die schwarze Katze: Erstdruck in: United States Saturday Post, 19. August 1843. Die Brille: Zuerst veröffentlicht in: Dollar Newspaper, 27. März 1844. Des wohlachtbaren Herrn Thingum Bob: Zuerst veröffentlicht in: Southern Literary Messenger, Dezember 1844. Der entwendete Brief: Erstdruck in: The Gift, 1845. Das System des Dr. Teer und Prof. Feder: Zuerst veröffentlicht in: Graham's Magazine, November 1845. Textgrundlage sind die Ausgaben: Edgar Allan Poes Werke. Gesamtausgabe der Dichtungen und Erzählungen, Band 3: Verbrechergeschichte. Herausgegeben von Theodor Etzel, Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, [1922]. Edgar Allan Poes Werke. Gesamtausgabe der Dichtungen und Erzählungen, Band 6: Scherz- und Spottgeschichten. Herausgegeben von Theodor Etzel, Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, [1922]. Edgar Allan Poes Werke. Gesamtausgabe der Dichtungen und Erzählungen, Band 5: Phantastische Fahrten. Herausgegeben von Theodor Etzel, Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, [1922]. Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Edgar Allan Poe Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 16 pt.

Según los informes que llegan de Rotterdam, esta ciudad parece hallarse en alto grado de excitación intelectual. Han ocurrido allí fenómenos tan inesperados, tan novedosos, tan diferentes de las opiniones ordinarias, que no cabe duda de que a esta altura toda Europa debe estar revolucionada, la física conmovida, y la razón y la astronomía dándose de puñadas. D'après les nouvelles les plus récentes de Rotterdam, il paraît que cette ville est dans un singulier état d'effervescence philosophique. En réalité, il s'y est produit des phénomènes d'un genre si complètement inattendu, si entièrement nouveau, si absolument en contradiction avec toutes les opinions reçues, que je ne doute pas qu'avant peu toute l'Europe ne soit sens dessus dessous, toute la physique en fermentation, et que la raison et l'astronomie ne se prennent aux cheveux.

Aunque la teoría del mesmerismo esté aún envuelta en dudas, sus sobrecogedoras realidades son ya casi universalmente admitidas. Los que dudan de éstas pertenecen a la casta inútil y despreciable de los que dudan por pura profesión. No hay mejor manera de perder el tiempo que proponerse probar en la actualidad que el hombre, por el simple ejercicio de su voluntad, puede impresionar a su semejante al punto de sumirlo en un estado anormal cuyas manifestaciones se parecen estrechamente a las de la muerte, o por lo menos en mayor grado que cualquier otro fenómeno conocido en condiciones normales; que, en ese estado, la persona así influida utiliza sólo con esfuerzo y en consecuencia débilmente los órganos exteriores de los sentidos y, sin embargo, percibe con agudeza y refinamiento, y por vías presuntamente desconocidas, cosas que están más allá del alcance de los órganos físicos; que, además, sus facultades intelectuales se hallan en un maravilloso estado de exaltación y fuerza; que las simpatías con la persona que así influye sobre ella son profundas, y, finalmente, que su susceptibilidad de impresión va en aumento gradual, al tiempo que en la misma proporción, se extienden y acentúan cada vez más los peculiares fenómenos producidos. Whatever doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of these latter, those who doubt, are your mere doubters by profession-an unprofitable and disreputable tribe. There can be no more absolute waste of time than the attempt to prove, at the present day, that man, by mere exercise of will, can so impress his fellow, as to cast him into an abnormal condition, of which the phenomena resemble very closely those of death, or at least resemble them more nearly than they do the phenomena of any other normal condition within our cognizance; that, while in this state, the person so impressed employs only with effort, and then feebly, the external organs of sense, yet perceives, with keenly refined perception, and through channels supposed unknown, matters beyond the scope of the physical organs; that, moreover, his intellectual faculties are wonderfully exalted and invigorated; that his sympathies with the person so impressing him are profound; and, finally, that his susceptibility to the impression increases with its frequency, while, in the same proportion, the peculiar phenomena elicited are more extended and more pronounced.

Volume three of the complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics. Macabre parties in isolated castles ... Gruesome bestial murders ... Talking ravens, hellish black pits, innocents buried alive ... Prepare to be chilled and enthralled by the haunting genius of the acknowledged master of gothic horror and suspense, Edgar Allan Poe. Included in this volume are Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym, Ligeia, Morella, A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains, The Spectacles, King Pest and Three Sundays In A Week.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.

D'après les nouvelles les plus récentes de Rotterdam, il paraît que cette ville est dans un singulier état d'effervescence philosophique. En réalité, il s'y est produit des phénomènes d'un genre si complètement inattendu, si entièrement nouveau, si absolument en contradiction avec toutes les opinions reçues, que je ne doute pas qu'avant peu toute l'Europe ne soit sens dessus dessous, toute la physique en fermentation, et que la raison et l'astronomie ne se prennent aux cheveux. Il paraît que le... du mois de... (je ne me rappelle pas positivement la date), une foule immense était rassemblée, dans un but qui n'est pas spécifié, sur la grande place de la Bourse de la confortable ville de Rotterdam. La journée était singulièrement chaude pour la saison, - il y avait à peine un souffle d'air, et la foule n'était pas trop fâchée de se trouver de temps à autre aspergée d'une ondée amicale de quelques minutes, qui s'épanchait des vastes masses de nuages blancs abondamment éparpillés à travers la voûte bleue du firmament.

Es la segunda narración en la que aparece el detective Auguste Dupin. Está basado en la tragedia real de Mary Cecilia Rogers sucedida en Nueva York. En el relato, la asesinada cambia su nombre al de Marie Rogêt y Poe convierte Nueva York en París. Mary Rogers era una atractiva vendedora de cigarrillos y su crimen nunca fue resuelto del todo; en el caso de Marie Rogêt, el personaje "ficticio", se sugiere que el asesino era un marinero desechándose asimismo la especulación de la policía respecto de que Marie fuera víctima de una pandilla; sin embargo, el mismo Poe evita anunciar que acaso haya resuelto el caso de la vida real aunque algunos contemporáneos suyos vieron en el relato precisamente ello, un intento de mayor notoriedad por parte del escritor norteamericano al buscar dar solución al crímen de Mary Rogers. Poe's detective character C. Auguste Dupin and his sidekick the unnamed narrator undertake the unsolved murder of Marie Rogêt in Paris. The body of Rogêt, a perfume shop employee, is found in the Seine River and the press takes a keen interest in the mystery. Dupin remarks that the newspapers "create a sensation ... [rather] than to further the cause of truth". Even so, he uses the newspaper reports to get into the mind of the murderer. Dupin uses his skills of ratiocination to determine that a single murderer was involved who dragged her by the cloth belt around her waist before dumping her body off a boat into the river. Finding the boat, Dupin suggests, will lead the police to the murderer.

Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today.

En plenos carnavales de alguna ciudad italiana del siglo XIX, Montresor busca a Fortunato con ánimo de vengarse de una pasada humillación. Al hallarlo ebrio, le resulta fácil convencerlo de que lo acompañe a su palazzo con el pretexto de darle a probar un nuevo vino. Lo conduce a las catacumbas de la casa, y allí consuma su venganza. The story is set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, and is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive-in this case, by immurement. As in "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", Poe conveys the story from the murderer's perspective.

Un joven desarraigado pero de esmerada educación se embarca en un buque de carga en la Isla de Java. El viaje es accidentado y en el transcurso de una tormenta toda la tripulación, salvo el joven y un viejo marino, es arrojada al mar. Más tarde el navío será embestido por otro extraño barco de mucho mayor tonelaje. El joven logra salvarse encaramándose a la cubierta del mismo y se encuentra con una tripulación tan extraña como el propio barco. Éste avanza a toda vela, sin rumbo conocido, hasta que se precipita el fantástico desenlace. An unnamed narrator, estranged from his family and country, sets sail as a passenger aboard a cargo ship from Batavia (now known as Jakarta, Indonesia). Some days into the voyage, the ship is first becalmed then hit by a Simoon (a combination of a sand storm and hurricane) that capsizes the ship and sends everyone except the narrator and an old Swede overboard. Driven southward by the magical Simoon towards the South Pole, the narrator's ship eventually collides with a gigantic black galleon, and only the narrator manages to scramble aboard. Once the new ship arrives, the narrator finds outdated maps and useless navigational tools throughout the ship. Also, he finds it to be manned by elderly crewmen who are unable to see him; he steals writing materials from the captain's cabin to keep a journal (the "manuscript" of the title) which he resolves to cast into the sea. This ship too continues to be driven southward, and he notices the crew appears to show signs of hope at the prospect of their destruction as it reaches Antarctica. The ship enters a clearing in the ice where it is caught in a vast whirlpool and begins to sink into the sea.

La historia sucede en una región imaginaria, cuyos habitantes estaban siendo afectados por una terrible pandemia, "la Muerte Roja", que se caracterizaba, aparte de por la velocidad con la que infectaba a las víctimas, por la gran cantidad de sangre que perdían los que la sufrían. Pero esto no le importaba mucho al príncipe Próspero, gobernador de este reino, quien decidió refugiarse, con sus amigos y cortesanos en una abadía fortificada. Aislados y ajenos a lo que ocurría en el mundo exterior, Próspero abasteció a la abadía con todo tipo de diversiones, desde bufones, músicos y bailarines a abundante comida y vino. Tras seis meses de aislamiento, Próspero decidió organizar un baile de máscaras en su extravagante abadía. Hizo uso de los siete salones en hilera de los que dispone el recinto, sólo que, a diferencia de lo que ocurre en los palacios, en los que los salones constituyen largas perspectivas en línea recta, dejando que la mirada atraviese sin obstáculo todas las estancias hasta el fondo cuando las puertas están abiertas, las de la abadía estaban colocadas de una manera irregular, pudiéndose ver sólo una sala cada vez, sin perspectiva. Estos salones tenían dos ventanas góticas a los lados con vidrieras de color que armonizaban con el color dominante de la sala: el primero tenía vidrieras de un azul vivo y la decoración de la sala también lo era, las del segundo eran púrpuras, la sala también, el tercero era verde, el cuarto naranja, el quinto blanco y el sexto violeta. A esto se añadía que los salones no tenían luz natural, sino que estaban iluminados por unos braseros colocados justo delante de las ventanas. La norma se interrumpía con el séptimo, forrado con telas negras cuyas ventanas eran de un color rojo escarlata. La iluminación y la combinación de los colores en este salón creaban unas sombras fantásticas y siniestras, tanto que nadie se atrevía a entrar en el cuando caía la noche. The story takes place at the castellated abbey of the "happy and dauntless and sagacious" Prince Prospero. Prospero and one thousand other nobles have taken refuge in this walled abbey to escape the Red Death, a terrible plague with gruesome symptoms that has swept over the land. Victims are overcome by "sharp pains," "sudden dizziness," and sweat blood. The plague is said to kill within half an hour. Prospero and his court are indifferent to the sufferings of the population at large. They intend to await the end of the plague in luxury and safety behind the walls of their secure refuge, having welded the doors shut. One night, Prospero holds a masquerade ball to entertain his guests in six colored rooms of the abbey. Each of the first six rooms is decorated and illuminated in a specific color: blue, purple, green, orange, white, and violet. The last room is decorated in black and is illuminated by a scarlet light, "a deep blood color". Because of this chilling pairing of colors, very few guests are brave enough to venture into the seventh room. The same room is the location of a large ebony clock that ominously clangs at each hour, upon which everyone stops talking or dancing and the orchestra stops playing. Once the chiming stops, everyone immediately resumes the masquerade.

"Mellonta Tauta," is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Born in Boston, he was the second child of two actors. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. Thus orphaned, the child was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia. Although they never formally adopted him, Poe was with them well into young adulthood. Tension developed later as John Allan and Edgar repeatedly clashed over debts, including those incurred by gambling, and the cost of secondary education for the young man. Poe attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. Poe quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education and enlisted in the Army in 1827 under an assumed name. It was at this time his publishing career began, albeit humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian." With the death of Frances Allan in 1829, Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement. Later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point and declaring a firm wish to be a poet and writer, Poe parted ways with John Allan. Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845 Poe published his poem, "The Raven," to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years after its publication. For years, he had been planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents. Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre. After his brother's death, Poe began more earnest attempts to start his career as a writer. He chose a difficult time in American publishing to do so. He was the first well-known American to try to live by writing alone and was hampered by the lack of an international copyright law. Publishers often pirated copies of British works rather than paying for new work by Americans. The industry was also particularly hurt by the Panic of 1837. Despite a booming growth in American periodicals around this time period, fueled in part by new technology, many did not last beyond a few issues and publishers often refused to pay their writers or paid them much later than they promised. Poe, throughout his attempts to live as a writer, repeatedly had to resort to humiliating pleas for money and other assistance.