Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, January 19, 1809 - Baltimore, October 7, 1849) is a poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, playwright and American publisher and one of the main figures of American romanticism. Best known for his tales - kind whose brevity allows him to develop his theory of the effect, according to which all elements of the text must contribute to the achievement of an effect only he gave his new letters nobility and is considered the inventor of the detective story. Many of his stories prefigure the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Born in Boston, Edgar Allan Poe loses his parents, David Poe, Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold, in his infancy; it is collected by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia, where he spent most of his younger years, except for a trip to England and Scotland, with relative ease. After a brief stint at the University of Virginia and the military career attempts, Allan Poe leaves. His literary career began humbly by the anonymous publication of a collection of poems called Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), signed only "a Bostonian". Poe moved to Baltimore, where he lives with his father's family and gives up some poetry to prose. In July 1835 he became editor-assistant at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, where it helps to increase subscriptions and began to develop his own style of literary criticism. The same year, twenty-six, he married his cousin Virginia Clemm, who was 14 years old. After the failure of his novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Poe produced his first collection of stories, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1839. The same year he became editor of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and in Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia. It's in Philadelphia that many of his works among the best known were published. In this city, Poe also planned the creation of his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), who will never see the day. In February 1844 he moved to New York, where he worked at Broadway Journal, a magazine of which he eventually became the sole owner. In January 1845, Poe published The Raven, which was an immediate success. But two years later, his wife Virginia died of tuberculosis on January 30, 1847. Poe is planning to remarry, but no project will be realized. October 7, 1849, Poe died at the age of 40 in Baltimore. The cause of death could not be determined and have been variously attributed to alcohol, to drugs, cholera, rabies, a disease of the heart, at a stroke, etc. The influence of Poe was and remains important to the United States as in the whole world, not only in literature but also other artistic areas such as movies and music, or in scientific fields . Although American author, he was first recognized and defended by French authors, Baudelaire and Mallarm in mind. Contemporary criticism places him among the most remarkable writers of American literature of the nineteenth century.

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dgar Allan Poe (Boston, 19 janvier 1809 - Baltimore, 7 octobre 1849) est un po te, romancier, nouvelliste, critique litt raire, dramaturge et diteur am ricain, ainsi que l'une des principales figures du romantisme am ricain. Connu surtout pour ses contes - genre dont la bri vet lui permet de mettre en valeur sa th orie de l'effet, suivant laquelle tous les l ments du texte doivent concourir la r alisation d'un effet unique- il a donn la nouvelle ses lettres de noblesse et est consid r comme l'inventeur du roman policier. Nombre de ses r cits pr figurent les genres de la science-fiction et du fantastique. N Boston, Edgar Allan Poe perd ses parents, David Poe Jr. et Elizabeth Arnold, dans sa petite enfance; il est recueilli par John et Frances Allan de Richmond, en Virginie, o il passe l'essentiel de ses jeunes ann es, si l'on excepte un s jour en Angleterre et en cosse, dans une aisance relative. Apr s un bref passage l'Universit de Virginie et des tentatives de carri re militaire, Poe quitte les Allan. Sa carri re litt raire d bute humblement par la publication anonyme d'un recueil de po mes intitul s Tamerlan et autres po mes (1827), sign s seulement par un Bostonien . Poe s'installe Baltimore, o il vit aupr s de sa famille paternelle et abandonne quelque peu la po sie pour la prose. En juillet 1835, il devient r dacteur-assistant au Southern Literary Messenger de Richmond, o il contribue augmenter les abonnements et commence d velopper son propre style de critique litt raire. La m me ann e, vingt-six ans, il pouse sa cousine germaine Virginia Clemm, alors g e de 14 ans. Apr s l' chec de son roman Les Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym, Poe r alise son premier recueil d'histoires, les Contes du Grotesque et de l'Arabesque, en 1839. La m me ann e, il devient r dacteur au Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, puis au Graham's Magazine Philadelphie. C'est Philadelphie que nombre de ses oeuvres parmi les plus connues ont t publi es. Dans cette ville, Poe a galement projet la cr ation de son propre journal, The Penn (plus tard rebaptis The Stylus), qui ne verra jamais le jour. En f vrier 1844, il d m nage New York, o il travaille au Broadway Journal, un magazine dont il devient finalement l'unique propri taire.

Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing the truth. It is an archetypal American story of escape from domesticity tracing a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus. The two boys, who find themselves repeatedly on the brink of discovery or death, witness many hair-raising events, including mutiny, savagery, cannibalism, and frantic pursuits. An unusually restrained Edgar Allan Poe strips away his more poetic tendencies as well as his luscious prose in this story, his only novel. The result is an adventure that is grim, Grim, GRIM...and so ends up feeling much like Poe after all, despite the shift in style.

A masquerade ball in a secluded abbey; a vendetta settled in the wine cellars of an Italian palazzo; a gloomy castle in a desolated landscape; the beating of a heart beneath the floorboards: the plots and settings of Poe's dark, mysterious tales continue to haunt the popular imagination. This new selection introduces the greatest Gothic fiction from one of the most deranged and deliciously weird writers of the nineteenth century. The tales are accompanied by the classic illustrations of Harry Clarke, an artist fully alive to the deep darkness at the heart of Poe's writing.

**Featuring Edgar Allan Poe's short story which inspired The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix**This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting short stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. They are filled with social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable mysteries. 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are frightening stories, while in the 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' we find the origins of modern detective fiction. Collectively, these tales represent the best of Edgar Allan Poe's prose work before his premature death in 1849. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination features an afterword by Jonty Claypole. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

This mesmerising, macabre collection contains Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poetry, including 'The Raven', 'Annabel Lee' and 'Lenore', and a selection of his very best stories, along with his finest tales from the last decade of his tragically short life. Many of these stories and poems explore the familiar Poe themes of murder, obsession and love, but this volume also contains many overlooked tales of the fantastic, black comedies, parodies and hoaxes, such as 'The Unparalleled Adventure of Hans Pfaall', 'Mesmeric Revolution', 'Hop-Frog', and 'The Imp of the Perverse'. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Tales and Poems features an afterword by David Pinching. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

A collection of supernatural short stories and poems that will both entertain and thrill. They are among the best writers from this powerful genre: WW Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James and M R James. They may also inspire the reader to think about the possibility of another dimension...

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A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood-stained teeth, a man is obsessed with the fear of being buried alive – these are only some of the memorable characters and stories included in this volume, which exemplify Poe’s inventiveness and natural talent as a storyteller. Immensely popular both during and after his lifetime, and a powerful influence on generations of writers and film-makers to this day, Edgar Allan Poe is still counted among the greatest short-story writers of all time and seen as one of the initiators of the detective, horror and science-fiction genres.