Résultats de "Edgar Allen Poe" dans Toutes les catégories

Aufgewühlt durch den dringlichen Brief des Jugendfreundes Roderick Usher reitet der namenlose Ich-Erzähler zu dessen Anwesen, dem Hause Usher, das durch seine gespenstische Umgebung, insbesondere den Teich, aus dem es sich erhebt, sowie durch einen Riss, der sich durch das Gemäuer zieht, einen beunruhigenden und schreckenerregenden Eindruck erweckt. Es wird außerdem von dem See erzählt, an dem das Haus Usher liegt. Dort trifft der Erzähler den nervlich stark überreizten, anscheinend an einer Geisteskrankheit leidenden Hausherrn, den letzten Spross eines degenerierten Adelsgeschlechtes.

Opening with the poem that made Poe a household name overnight, this collection of his short works includes the narrative poem "The Raven", the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", and the first of Poe's "ratiocination" tales: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", featuring the first of the fictional detectives: C. Auguste Dupin.

A prisoner, sentenced to death during the Spanish Inquisition, finds himself trapped in a lightless cell to contemplate his fate. Will he die by falling helplessly into a deathly, yawning pit in the center of the room? Or will the deadly, razor-sharp pendulum slowly descending from the ceiling be the cause of his demise? This enhanced audiobook - with music and sound effects - is an unabridged copy of the classic story by the master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe.

Más de 25 horas de audiolibros: CORAZÓN INDIO, de Nieves Herrero; LA ESPOSA DEL SOL, de G. Leroux; EL ESCARABAJO DE ORO, de Edgar Allan Poe; y MANAOS, de Alberto Vázquez Figueroa.

Edgar Allen Poe's masterful poem, The Raven, is a strange and haunting story of lost love. It tells of a distraught young man who, while lamenting the loss of his lover, Lenore, is visited by a talking raven, adding a supernatural element to an already mysterious experience. The story traces the man's slow, sorrowful descent into madness. This edition of The Raven includes historical information about the author and the story.

The three tales that make up Edgar Allan Poe's The Dupin Mysteries introduce us to the cracking character of Chevalier Auguste Dupin. As a rationalist and practitioner of brilliant deduction, he was to become the template for most of the detective fiction that followed speedily in his wake. The first tale, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", details a form of murder solving that was to become only too familiar.

"Hop Frog", (originariamente "Hop-Frog, Or, The Eight Chained Ourangoutangs") è un racconto pubblicato la prima volta nel 1849. Un giullare nano, organizza la propria vendetta verso il re che aveva recato offesa alla sua amica nana Trippetta. "Il cuore rivelatore", breve racconto del 1843, narra dell'omicidio di un personaggio senza nome che, ossessionato dall'occhio vitreo del vecchio avvocato per cui lavorava, decide di ucciderlo, per eliminare per sempre dalla sua vista l'occhio.

In the penumbra between time and space resides the nexus of our consciousness. From the darkness, our momentum percolates forth—carving its trajectory into what will no longer be a void.

Auf einer Reise lernt ein Engländer in einer alten Stadt am Rhein die äußerst faszinierende Dichterin Lady Ligeia kennen und lieben.