Un relato policíaco que presenta al lector un crimen aparentemente irresoluble, en el que todo gira entorno a una habitación cerrada. Un crimen sangriento y brutal resuelto por una mente privilegiada; muy a lo Sherlock Holmes. (De hecho, se considera a Auguste Dupine, creado por Edgar Allan Poe, ...
O livro incluía ainda “O Mistério de Marie Rogêt”, ambos protagonizados pelo célebre detective “caseiro” Dupin (que veio a influenciar a criação posterior de outros mais conhecidos: Sherlock Holmes e Hercule Poirot, por exemplo). Por um lado gostei das reflexões metafísicas que acompanhavam a aná...
I had the opportunity to read this short story over Christmas. I'm a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes. Those short stories were my introduction to the murder mystery and I was hooked. This story by Poe is credited with starting the mystery genre, so I was glad to finally read it.I was a little disa...
The much-hyped, greatly-revered “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” were a bitter disappointment.The first and titular of the five short stories began with a long discussion of everything you never wanted to know about chess, simply to allow Poe to make clear the difference between observing and anal...
Having read a number of Sherlock Holmes stories over the past year our so, I was shocked to realise how similar these Dumas novels of Poe's are, except some fifty years earlier. One very impressive example is early in the story of the murders of the Rue Morgue, where Dumas knows what his companio...
ذكرتني تلك القصة بالجو المميز لقصص شيرلوك هولمز,البطل المتفرد العبقري غريب الاطوار,الصديق محدود الذكاء راوي الأحداث,جريمة غامضة وحقائق مروعة وألغاز وتشويق وتوتر..ممتعة القصة وبها قدر لابأس به من الإثارة لكن ليست عبقرية كأعمال هولمز نفسه. Wow. This story was amazing. Edgar Allan Poe, the father of...
Lo stile di Poe o ti rapisce immediatamente o non c'è nulla da fare. Io ho apprezzato molto il suo stile. Mi è piaciuto particolarmente il pezzo sulla perversione, non credo esistano parole migliori.Ad ogni modo al libro non posso dare più di tre stelline perché non mi sono piaciuti allo stesso m...
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If you combined clockwork gears, parasols, and air balloons with Edgar Allan Poe, what would you get? Steampunk: Poe ! This is the first collection ever of Poe stories illustrated with the influence of steampunk. Running Press Teens has selected some of the most popular, thrilling, and memorable ...
Edgar Allen Poe writes mysteriously, it's not like those romance mystery novels or the Agatha Christie mystery novels, I do like Agatha Cristie though. But, I love the way Poe writes. When reading the short story, you get the feeling he has multiple personality disorder, but they did not know wha...
What initially seemed to be a classic amusing story about a jester in a capricious king's court swiftly turned into a tale of gruesome revenge as Hop Frog turned the tables on his former master, after finally having enough of his tormenting. Riveting and beautifully written, Poe continues to impr...
There is something in the reader in me that constantly drives to seek out the unusual and inexplicable. Authors who try to achieve this effect deliberately are always a bore, for the same reason that a man who wears a tophat as an affectation is always infinitely dull compared to the man who wear...
I haven't read this whole book, but I did finally get around to reading "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Pit and the Pendulum" this past week. This is part of my half-hearted and slow-going effort to read some of the things I would have read in high school, had I stayed in high school ra...
t Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber do...
What can be said about the works of Edgar Allan Poe that hasn't already been said, and doesn't need to be said?Hypnotic is the word best used to describe his works. In my copy of his complete words, I leave little marks in the Table of Contents for my favorite poems and favorite short stories (t...
It's the end of an era.I've had this book on my currently-reading shelf since October 25, 2008. I've been "currently reading" this book longer than two of my children have existed.I have some rules when it comes to goodreads - if I don't finish a book, I don't review it. I often see one-star re...
Edgar Allan Poe has succeeded in creating an extremely excellent Gothic work, which contains the famous characteristics of this genre, such as terror, suspense, depressing landscape, haunted house and gloom’s metonymy. A dearth of setting is the first and clear observation that we have in mind. ...
This is a fine collection not only of samples of Poe’s work in many genres but also of critical essays about him. While is it impossible to comment on everything contained in this volume, a few things are worth noting.Some of his poems - one thinks of “The Raven,” “Annabel Lee,” and “The Bells” ...
Comments on these Volumes overall:I haven't figured out how the editor is organizing Poe's works among the 5 volumes in this series. It seems clear that Poe was prodigious enough to require 5 volumes, but wouldn't they be better presented in chronological order? As it is, it is possible they ar...
Here is a very short chapter book that includes abridged versions of a few of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories. They are going to be read with ease by the average 5th or 6th grader. They are really not all that much different from the original works, just tightly edited and have had some of the...
The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Creat...
—Sir Thomas Browne2 THE MENTAL FEATURES discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liv...
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a less serious mode in which disfiguration or repulsiveness usually signals satirical purpose. Of course he sometimes used deformity to make a character seem dangerous (“Hop-Frog”) or horrifying (“The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”). But as if mocking his own anxieties about death, decay, livi...
My name is the Signora Psyche Zenobia. This I know to be a fact. Nobody but my enemies ever calls me Suky Snobbs. I have been assured that Suky is but a vulgar corruption of Psyche, which is good Greek, and means “the soul” (that’s me, I’m all soul) and sometimes “a ...
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—Alcman “Listen to me,” said the Demon as he placed his hand upon my head. “The region of which I speak is a dreary region in Libya, by the borders of the river Zaire. And there is no quiet there, nor silence. “The waters of the river have a saffron and sickly hue; and the...
- The Atlantic crossed in Three Days ! Signal Triumph of Mr. Monck Mason's Flying Machine ! - Arrival at Sullivan's Island, near Charlestown, S.C., of Mr. Mason, Mr. Robert Holland, Mr. Henson, Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, and four others, in the Steering Balloon, "Victoria," after a passage of Sevent...
We found the tortoises as fine as we had ever seen, and the ducks surpassed our best species of wild fowl, being exceedingly tender, juicy, and well-flavoured. Besides these, the savages brought us, upon our making them comprehend our wishes, a vast quantity of brown celery and scurvy grass, with...