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A Descent Into The Maelstrom
[english | 1841]Edgar Allan Poe
Summary: [Inspired by the Moskstraumen it is couched as a story within a story a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old - You suppose me a very old man he says but I am not. It took less than a single day to change these hairs from a jetty black to white to weaken my limbs and to unstring my nerves. The narrator convinced by the ...]
Genres: [fiction | horror | short stories] Downloads: 403
A Predicament
[english | 1838]Edgar Allan Poe
Excerpts: [... Pigs were whistling. Carts they rattled. Bulls they bellowed. Cows they lowed. Horses they neighed. Cats they caterwauled. Dogs they danced. Danced! ...... companions. Diana, my poodle! sweetest of creatures! She had a quantity of hair over her one eye, and a blue ribband tied fashionably around her neck. ...... his ankles (as usual with that race) in the middle of the upper ...]
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A Tale Of Jerusalem
[english | 1832]Edgar Allan Poe
Excerpts: [... Abel-Phittim to Buzi-Ben-Levi and Simeon the Pharisee, on the tenth day of the month Thammuz, in the year of the world three thousand nine hundred ...... Gizbarim, or sub-collectors of the offering, in the holy city of Jerusalem. Verily, replied the Pharisee, let us hasten: for this generosity in the ...... the Ammonites proved wanting to their own interests? Methinks it is no ...]
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A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains
[english | 1843]Edgar Allan Poe
Excerpts: [... uneven, although sound, than I had ever before seen teeth in a human head. The expression of his smile, however, was by no means unpleasing, as might ...... grew accustomed to it, and my uneasiness wore off. It seemed to be his design rather to insinuate than directly to assert that, physically, he had not ...... doctrines of Mesmer. It was altogether by means of magnetic remedies ...]
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Aventure Sans Pareille Dun Certain Hans Pfaal
[french | 1835]Edgar Allan Poe
Excerpts: [... ce r'ecit, tous les efforts pour obtenir des renseignements sur eux avaient 'echou'e. Il est vrai qu'on avait d'ecouvert r'ecemment, dans une partie ...... et de toutes les drogues de cette esp`ece. Les gens qui jusque-l`a avaient 'et'e les meilleures pratiques du monde n'avaient plus un moment pour penser ...... trait'e (coincidant avec une d'ecouverte pneumatique[2] qui m'avait ...]
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Berenice
[french | 1835]Edgar Allan Poe
Excerpts: [... joie qu'est n'e le chagrin soit que le souvenir du bonheur pass'e fasse l'angoisse d'aujourd'hui, soit que les agonies qui sont tirent leur origine ...... - mais plus sp'ecialement dans la galerie des vieux tableaux, - dans la physionomie de la biblioth`eque, - et enfin dans la nature toute particuli`ere ...... de tous les jours, mais positivement mon unique et enti`ere existence ...]
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Bon Bon
[english | 1832]Edgar Allan Poe
Summary: [The death of Edgar Allan Poe on October 7 1849 has remained mysterious: the circumstances leading up to it are uncertain and the cause of death is disputed. On October 3 Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore Maryland in great distress and... in need of immediate assistance according to the man who found him Joseph W. Walker. He was taken to the Washington College Hospital where he ...]
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Colloque Entre Monos Et Una
[french | 1845]Edgar Allan Poe
Excerpts: [... - Comme tu fais 'etrangement 'echo `a mes paroles, douce Una! J'observe aussi une vacillation dans ta d'emarche, - une joyeuse inqui'etude dans ...... nous s'eparer `a jamais! Ainsi, avec le temps, aimer devint une douleur. Pour lors, la haine nous e^ut 'et'e une mis'ericorde. MONOS. - Ne parle pas ...... Chacun des cinq ou six si`ecles qui pr'ec'ed`erent notre mort vit, `a un ...]
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Conversation Deiros Avec Charmion
[french | 1839]Edgar Allan Poe
Excerpts: [... as l'air de poss'eder toute ta vie et ta raison. La taie de l'ombre a d'ej`a disparu de tes yeux. Prends courage, et ne crains rien. Les jours `a donner ...... - aie piti'e de moi, Charmion! - Je suis 'ecras'ee sous la majest'e de toutes choses, - de l'inconnu maintenant r'ev'el'e, - de l'Avenir, cette conjecture, fondu ...... p'eri. EIROS. - 'Epouvantablement! 'epouvantablement! ...]
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Criticism
[english | ]Edgar Allan Poe
Summary: [s Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays attempts to formulate an overall view of the scope theory principles and techniques of literary criticism derived exclusively from literature. Frye consciously omits all specific and practical criticism instead offering classically-inspired theories of modes symbols myths and genres in what he termed an interconnected group of suggestions. The literary ...]
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Derniers Contes
[french | 1887]Edgar Allan Poe
Summary: [The death of Edgar Allan Poe on October 7 1849 has remained mysterious: the circumstances leading up to it are uncertain and the cause of death is disputed. On October 3 Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore Maryland in great distress and... in need of immediate assistance according to the man who found him Joseph W. Walker. He was taken to the Washington College Hospital where he ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 235
Diddling Considered As One Of The Exact Sciences
[english | 1843]Edgar Allan Poe
Excerpts: [... conception of the matter in hand, by defining-not the thing, diddling, in itself-but man, as an animal that diddles. Had Plato but hit upon this, ...... object-his end. And for this reason when a man's diddled we say he's done. Diddling, rightly considered, is a compound, of which the ingredients ...... Number One. You are Number Two, and must look to yourself. Perseverance:-Your ...]
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Double Assassinat Dans La Rue Morgue
[french | 1841]Edgar Allan Poe
Summary: [Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue (The Murders in the Rue Morgue dans ldition originale) est une nouvelle dEdgar Allan Poe parue en avril 1841 dans le Grahams Magazine traduite en franais dabord par Isabelle Meunier puis en 1856 par Charles Baudelaire dans le recueil Histoires extraordinaires. Cest la premire apparition du dtective invent par Poe le Chevalier Dupin qui doit faire face une ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective | short stories] Downloads: 37
Edgar Allan Poe Complete Poetical Works
[english | ]Edgar Allan Poe
Summary: [Edgar Allan Poe by Hanns Heinz Ewers. This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks notations marginalia and flawed pages.]
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El Corazon Delator
[spanish | 1843]Edgar Allan Poe
Summary: [El corazn delator (ttulo original en ingls: The Tell-Tale Heart) tambin conocido como El corazn revelador es un cuento del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe publicado por primera vez en el peridico literario The Pioneer en enero de 1843. Poe lo republic ms tarde en su peridico The Broadway Journal en su edicin del 23 de agosto de 1845.La historia presenta a un narrador annimo obsesionado ...]
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El Escarabajo De Oro
[spanish | 1843]Edgar Allan Poe
Summary: [William Legrand tras sufrir problemas econmicos se traslad a la isla Sullivan donde fij su residencia. Se dedicaba a la caza y pesca. Sala a excursiones acompaado de su sirviente negro Jpiter.El narrador annimo de la historia entabl amistad con Legrand. Una tarde lo visit y se enter que Legrand haba encontrado un escarabajo de oro. No lo vio porque Legrand lo haba entregado a un teniente. Esa ...]
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El Gato Negro
[spanish | 1843]Edgar Allan Poe
Summary: [The Black Cat is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19 1843 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt often paired in analysis with Poes The Tell-Tale Heart. In both a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself unassailable but eventually breaks down and reveals himself impelled by a nagging reminder of his ...]
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El Pozo Y El Pendulo
[spanish | 1842]Edgar Allan Poe
Summary: [El pozo y el pndulo (ttulo original en ingls: The Pit and the Pendulum) es uno de los cuentos ms famosos y celebrados de Edgar Allan Poe. Est considerado como uno de los relatos ms espeluznantes dentro de la literatura de terror pues transmite el abandono la desorientacin el desconcierto y la desesperanza de una persona que sabe que va a morir.http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_pozo_y_el_pndulo]
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El Retrato Oval
[spanish | 1842]Edgar Allan Poe
Summary: [Este relato narra la historia de un hombre herido que pasa la noche en un castillo abandonado recientemente. El castillo era suntuoso y estaba decorado con hermosos tapices y cuadros. El hombre coge un pequeo libro que encuentra debajo de la almohada en el que hay una breve descripcin de los cuadros y las obras de arte. Se fija en un retrato oval de una seora y procede a leer su historia....]
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Eleonora
[french | 1841]Edgar Allan Poe
Summary: [Eleanor (1996) is a biography of Eleanor Roosevelts childhood describing her as a shy girl who goes on to do great things. A childrens book written by Barbara Cooney.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 275