Edgar Allan Poe (104 kníh)
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Edgar Allan Poe The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe ENEdgar Allan Poe was one of the earliest pioneers of the short story and perfected the tale of psychological horror. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse dramas and some of the most evocative poetry in the English language. This leatherbound omnibus collects all of Poe's fiction and poetry in a single volume, including The Fall…
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Edgar Allan Poe The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe ENThe Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe is the next edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, featuring works from the famous gothic American writer. His works span from 1827 to his death in 1849. His often macabre and dark works included The Raven, The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, and Annabelle Lee. For Poe fans worldwide, this stunning gift edition has a full cloth binding, foil blocking on the spine,…
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Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher and Other StoriesClassic / American English There are five stories in this book. 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Barrel of Amontillado' are stories of madness, 'The Maelstrom' describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean, and in...
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Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher and Other StoriesClassic / American English: There are five stories in this book. 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Barrel of Amontillado' are stories of madness; 'The Maelstrom' describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in...
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Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales ENThe celebrated master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe brought his nightmare imaginings to life in his classic stories told in his signature dark and vibrant style. This volume gathers together fourteen of his richest and most influential tales, including: “The Pit and the Pendulum,” his reimagining of Inquisition tortures; “The Tell-Tale Heart,” an exploration of a murderer’s madness, which Stephen King called “the…
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Edgar Allan Poe The Fall ot the House of Usher and Other Stories ENThe midnight hour approaches. You lie in bed and try to sleep, but there is the howling of the wind outside, the creak of a floorboard, the scream of a cat, the ticking clock... Your heart beats, your skin crawls, and despite yourself you reach for this book and enter a world like a nightmare, haunted by dark fears, guilty secrets and the bloody consequences of rage, revenge and obsession. You cannot tear yourself…
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Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue ENIncludes The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, and The Purloined Letter. Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, these tales brought Poe fame and fortune to live on. Years later, Dorothy Sayers would…
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Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales ENPart of a special set of 10 hardcover classics, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, that innovatively use foil and a special new binding material to create a highly collectible set. Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in 'The Murders in…
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Edgar Allan Poe, Janet Borsbey, Ruth Swan The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ENEdgar Allan Poe’s only novel is an exciting and unmissable story and a classic of American literature. His name is Arthur Gordon Pym. He comes from Nantucket. Nantucket is atown in America, near the sea. People from Nantucket are often sailors. His grandfather is a lawyer. He’s famous and he’s very rich. Gordon Pym is very lucky. He is only eighteen years old, but he as a small boat. Its name is the Ariel. He…
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Edgar Allan Poe The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ENTravelling aboard a whaling vessel, a young stowaway is swept up in myriad misadventures – mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism – narrowly escaping numerous brushes with death. This rousing story of a daring sea voyage also presents its antihero with a host of psychological dilemmas, and offers an important insight into Poe’s work as a whole. The only complete novel by infamous gothic horror writer Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The…
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Edgar Allan Poe The Pit and the Pendulum ENThis selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In The Tell Tale Heart, a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him,…
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Edgar Allan Poe The Pit and the Pendulum and Other TalesSince their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of ...
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Edgar Allan Poe The Pit and the Pendulum/Jáma a kyvadlo CZBilingvní vydání slavné povídky E. A. Poea a dalších dvou příběhů potěší každého milovníka tohoto autora a jeho jazyka, zvláště překladatele, knížka je totiž opatřena vysvětlivkami u výrazů, které se dnes běžně neužívají nebo nabyly jiného významu. Stačí ji tedy jen otevřít a začíná tento tajemný, temný příběh: Impia tortorum longas...
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Edgar Allan Poe The Raven ENOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door... Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven is one of the most widely recognised poems in the English language. When it first appeared in the New York Evening Mirror, in 1845, the poem made…
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Edgar Allan Poe The Raven ENPart of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro The Raven: Tales and Poems is a landmark new anthology of Poe's work, which defied convention, shocked readers, and confounded critics. This selection of Poe's writings demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. 'The Fall of the House…
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Edgar Allan Poe The Raven and Other Favorite Poems ENFeatures 41 of Poe's most memorable poems...
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Edgar Allan Poe The Raven and Other Selected Poems ENThis selection of Edgar Allan Poe's poetical works includes some of his best-known pieces, including the triumphant, gleeful ‘The Bells', the tragic ode ‘Annabel Lee' and his famous gothic tour de force, ‘The Raven'. Some present powerful, nightmarish images of the macabre and bizarre, while others have at their heart a profound sense of love, beauty and loss. All are linguistic masterpieces that demonstrate Poe's…
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Edgar Allan Poe Tri prípady detektíva DupinaAmerický autor E.A. Poe v troch novelách Vraždy na ulici Morgue, Záhada Marie Rogêtovej a Odcudzený list vytvoril postavu amatérskeho detektíva Dupina, ktorý sa stal predlohou Sherlocka Holmesa a ďalších slávnych detektívov. Tak ako je jeho detektívna práca založená na rozumových schopnostiach namiesto sily svalov, sú tri novely podrobným opisom intelektuálnej činnosti Dupina.
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Edgar Allan Poe Vraždy a jiné zběsilostiMistr hororu, jak jej neznáte. Klasik hrůzostrašné povídky by nemohl existovat bez protikladných vlivů, a tak vedle jeho nejlepších děsuplných povídek, například Sudu vína amontilladského nebo Skokana, můžeme...
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