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The Murders in the Rue Morgue: Klett English Readers

Autor Edgar Allan Poe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2013
The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer's oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America's first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe's reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry. Just as the bizarre characters in Poe's stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author's name. The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe's sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls' school. Within three years of Poe's birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe's siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe's handwriting on the backs of Allan's ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
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ISBN-13: 9783125425019
ISBN-10: 3125425018
Dimensiuni: 209 x 135 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Klett Sprachen GmbH
Seria Klett English Readers


Notă biografică

Edgar Allan Poe wurde am vom 19. Januar 1809 in Boston geboren und starb am 07. Oktober 1849 in Baltimore. Er war ein amerikanischer Dichter, Erzähler und Literaturtheoretiker.

Edgar Poe wurde als Sohn des Schauspieler-Ehepaares Elizabeth Poe und David Poe in Boston in Massachusetts, geboren. Bereits zwei Jahre später war er ein Waisenkind und wurde in Richmond in Virginia vom kinderlosen Tabakhändler John Allan und seiner Ehefrau aufgenommen. Mit ihnen lebte er einige Jahre in Schottland, bis es 1820 nach New York ging.

Weil Edgar Allan Poe - so nannte er sich inzwischen - nicht mit seinem Pflegevater zurechtkam, ging er zur Armee und wandte sich dem Journalismus zu. Ab 1835 war er bei verschiedenen Zeitungen tätig. 1836 heiratete er seine dreizehnjährige Kusine Virginia Clemm. Nach deren Tod im Jahr 1847 versuchte er vergeblich, seine psychischen Probleme durch Alkohol und vermutlich auch Opium zu bekämpfen.

Ab 1838 erschienen seine okkulten Erzählungen. Mit seinen "Detektiv-Dupin"-Geschichten schuf Edgar Allan Poe eine neue, erfolgreiche Gattung von Kriminalstorys und war Wegbereiter der Kurzgeschichte. Wichtige Werke unter anderem: "Die Abenteuer Gordon Pyms" 1838, "Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue" 1841, "Phantastische Erzählungen" von 1832 bis 1839. Poes Werk beinhaltet Erzählungen, Lyrik, Essays und komplexe wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen.

Sein Ende war tragisch: Am 7. Oktober 1849 starb er verwahrlost und unter ungeklärten Umständen mit vierzig Jahren in Baltimore in Maryland. Seine letzten Worte waren angeblich: "Gott helfe meiner armen Seele.'

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MATTHEW PEARLEdgar Allan Poe invented detective fiction with these three mesmerising stories of a young eccentric named C.