Edgar Allan Poe

Ligeia (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The unnamed narrator describes the qualities of Ligeia, a beautiful, passionate and intellectual woman, raven-haired and dark-eyed, that he thinks he remembers meeting 'in some large, old decaying city near the Rhine.' He is unable to recall anything about the history of Ligeia, including her family's name, but remembers her beautiful appearance. Her beauty, however, is not conventional. He describes her as emaciated, with some 'strangeness.' He describes her face in detail, from her 'faultless' forehead to the 'divine orbs' of her eyes. They marry, and Ligeia impresses her husband with her immense knowledge of physical and mathematical science, and her proficiency in classical languages. She begins to show her husband her knowledge of metaphysical and 'forbidden' wisdom... (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 18
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783956760938
• Artikelnr.: 42401077

Autorenporträt

Edgar Allan Poe (180949) reigned unrivaled in his mastery of mystery during his lifetime and is now widely held to be a central figure of Romanticism and gothic horror in American literature. Born in Boston, he was orphaned at age three, was expelled from West Point for gambling, and later became a well-regarded literary critic and editor. The Raven, published in 1845, made Poe famous. He died in 1849 under what remain mysterious circumstances and is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.