Edgar Allan Poe

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe, January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Youcanprint
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788892670181
• Artikelnr.: 51223536

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation -- Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell -- Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis -- The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfall -- The Gold Bug -- Four Beasts in One -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue -- The Mystery of Marie Rogêt -- The Balloon Hoax -- MS. Found in a Bottle -- The Oval Portrait