Edgar Allan Poe

The Spectacles (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The narrator, 22-year old Napoleon Buonaparte, changes his last name from 'Froissart' to 'Simpson' as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well, he requires spectacles but, in his vanity 'resolutely refused to employ them.' His companion Talbot identifies the woman as Madame Eugenie Lalande, a wealthy widow, and promises to introduce the two. He courts her and proposes marriage, she makes him promise that, on their wedding night, he will wear his spectacles... (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 28
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783956760921
• Artikelnr.: 42332544

Autorenporträt

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of the most significant and singular writers in the history of American letters. He was a poet, a pioneer of science fiction, the father of the detective story, and a master of the macabre whom Nobel-prize winner Toni Morrison identified as a key to America's conflicted literary conscience. He died mysteriously in Baltimore at the age of forty, leaving behind a body of work that has influenced writers and artists such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Paul Klee, H. P. Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Stephen King, Tim Burton, Guillermo del Toro, and every crime writer to this day.