Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems (Amazing Values)

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Invenţia tehnică ce a pus pe jar fizicienii din secolul XVIII. Citind-o, mi-a pus la încercare spiritul de observaţie, făcându-mă să "disec" şi să fiu sceptic… Oricum -că să nu ciopârtesc farmecul lecturii pentru cei ce vor a citi!-, microromanul înfăţişează o aura de mister ce planează în jurul unei crime. Şi, că tot e scrisă de Poe, finalul trebuie să fie desigur zdrobitor (dar fără niciun dram de supranatural de data aceasta!)... While he doesn’t say as much, it can be inferred that, if you can convince a reader that something is the truth, you are equally capable of perpetrating a hoax. This reminded me of the later quotation often attributed to Oscar Wilde: In “Shadow - A Parable”, Poe recognises the incredibility of his tale (set in ancient Egypt) by anticipating that some readers will disbelieve it and some will doubt it instead. His soul will never lift anymore; hope shall never be lifted anymore. By the end of the poem he has full realised the reality of the situation. The raven, the dark bird of harsh truth, the harbinger of the words he simply doesn’t want to hear, has become demonised. It has become the very object he did not want to face; he created a sense of longing to protect himself from the emotional loss of Lenore, and this bubble of falsehood has been burst. Reality sets in, and it is a fate worse than death. It is one of persecution and mental chaos as the bird is simply unable to supply the man with all his answers. He is driven mad by the unknown.

The Masque of the Red Death": 4 - read 9/19/2021. Oddly timely considering that the MET Gala still happened while the COVID pandemic rages on... The first story in this collection is “The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall”, which is more like a piece of science fiction (about a trip to the moon). The complete text of all of the tales and poems written by Edgar Allan Poe (over 125 works), each elegantly formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your Kindle reader.The richness of emotion that the writer touches is truly marvelous. He places himself completely in the most fantastic situations, and then responds on paper as if he was living out the events. The settings may be fantastical, but the agony, horror, sorrow...and humor, upon occasion...are real. Love lost becomes a soul-destroying episode, not merely a temporary, heart-rending parting. In the deepest slumber - no! In delirium - no! In a swoon - no! In death - no! Even in the grave all is not lost. Arousing from the most profound of slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream.” An individual, active Table of Contents for each section accessible from the Kindle “go to” feature. The final episode describes a murder which then reveals itself as a reflection in a mirror, saying, "In me didst thou exist - and in my death, see how utterly thou hast murdered thyself." Poe sent a copy of this story to Washington Irving, so the ending may well be an homage to a specific story of Irving's, in which the main character kills his double with his sword, only to see his own face behind the mask. The Masque of the Red Death - a wonderfully written allegory about life and death, and no matter how rich you may be or what you have in the world, you can't avoid death

When divorced from his single-minded prosody, Poe's mastery of the language elegantly serves the needs of mood, characterization, and action. This is not always the case: his Ligeia retains his poetic narrowness, but his detective stories have a gentleness and wit found nowhere else in his oeuvre. incipitul scrierii, Poe insistă asupra relaţiei dintre fizică şi metafizică (şi asupra înclinaţiei oamenilor de a o explica pe ce-a de-a doua cu ajutorul principiilor celei dintâi), urmând ca apoi să înfăţişeze o lume în care metafizica (corelată cu divinitatea) să se arate că ceva ce nu poate fi explicat, dar care cere a fi simţit… Poe asserts that “the analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis...Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.” I was surprised by what I found in here. Poe was slightly different to what I thought. He is very much shrouded in shadow and the macabre, at least, his more successful stories and poems were. But there were also some very basic stories in here, some that felt like they weren’t even written by the same person. For every great piece of literature, there were two mediocre ones. I disliked the crime stories in particular. The best ones, for me, were the ones where the narrator laments a lost love on the cusp of insanity: these stories were simply beautiful. William Wilson": 5 - read 11/20/2021. Reminded me of "The Double" by Dostoevsky. He definitely took inspiration from Poe! There's also similarities to "The Picture of Dorian Gray," which makes me think Oscar Wilde was also inspired by Poe. Stories about doppelgängers are always unsettling to me.I have no idea what to think of Four Beasts In One: The Homo-Cameleopard. It was boring, ridiculous and did not even include a message of its own. A story which can definitely be skipped without regretting it. I recommend looking at the following quote and considering exactly who is speaking, and why he would conjure up such an image. Perhaps, he didn’t fantasise this. Maybe this is paranormal. I do love the multiplicity of its interpretation. The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion": 1.5 - read 11/14/2021. Forgettable but okay...a science fiction/post-apocalyptic story which is pretty cool for the time period. It was just very short with not a lot to it. Being the first short story Poe has ever published, Metzengerstein includes all the well-known aspects of his writing style which he has become so popular for. Quite disturbing, relying on speculative thoughts due to the narrative, a thought-provoking turning point and a deeper meaning which appears when thinking more precisely about the story. Poe has excellently explored the interesting concept of metempsychosis through this interesting short story which focuses on the feuds of two rivaling Hungarian families. [Please don't read the synopsis on the Goodreads book edition, since it spoils the story and its apparent meaning in their entirety.]

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the OG's when it comes to macabre literature. His name alone screams angst. Problema noastră -sau, mă rog!, a unui cerc relativ restrâns de oameni, dar răsfirat- este, cred eu, aceea că, oricât ar nega-o cugetul nostru, noi simţim o voluptate de a suferi. Iar Poe, pe drept cuvânt, este un maestru în arta de a-i face pe alţii să sufere. Şi cel mai interesant fapt e că opera lui dăinuie tocmai prin asta. Misterul Mariei Roget" este net inferioară nuvelei "Crimele din Rue Morgue". Ambele îl au ca protagoniste pe legendarul Auguste Dupin, ambele se bazează pe deducţii logice, ambele "anchete" pleacă de la nimic concret şi ajung să fie explicate pe zece căi lăturalnice. The Imp of the Perverse (1845) is another example of a story posing as an essay. It is an examination of theories, rather than being heavy on plot. The "imp of the perverse" is a metaphoric spirit, and refers to the urge we humans feel to do something "merely because we feel we should not." The flimsy story describes an act of murder, which was meticulously planned to look like an accident, and therefore would never have been detected save for "the imp of the perverse." The narrator arouses suspicion by behaving oddly, by running around and ultimately by confessing to the murder in a clear and "distinct enunciation." The entire story describes an act of self-destruction, as the narrator was ultimately tried and hanged for the murder. Some critics theorise that Poe was forming an early theory, which was later developed by Sigmund Freud into that of the self-conscious and repression: On the other hand, Poe adds that “by undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.”

This is a good description of how Poe goes about writing his tales, in particular “The Gold-Bug”. But it also helps to understand the Post-Modernist preoccupation with maximalism, with size or length or quantity over subject or merit or quality. Poe himself adds: The Spectacles” comically cautions the reader against love at first sight, especially when you have less than perfect vision. Speaking of Poe’s death, he was f The story satirises both science and knowledge, poking fun at Egyptology on the way. The prevailing attitude of the time was that in the Western world humanity had reached the height of civilization and knowledge due to scientific and industrial revolutions. The mummy is able to prove them mistaken at every point, and that his society's inventions were far from being inferior, and frequently superior. The only progress which is unquestionable seems to be the invention of cough drops. A nice touch is that the mummy of the title is called "Allamistakeo". This collection of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and poems is perhaps the most definitive that you are going to come across and it is the reason that I am satisfied with owning just this collection and nothing more. If I come across a nice looking Poe collection, I may consider purchasing it. I also own a collection of some of his short stories in an illustrated format, but I am from the mold that is satisfied with having one of a particular work in good quality. For what it is worth, this collection of Poe's works is completely satisfactory!

He is credited with writing the first detective story with The Murders in the Rue Morgue. The same main character recurs in The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter, which were just okay. I've never liked the genre, and while I can appreciate it as the pioneering work that it is, those kind of tales are absolutely not my cup of tea. Dacă Poe ar fi dezvoltat şi latura psihologică a personajului şi, prin urmare, ar fi făcut scrierea mai amplă, mai fluentă şi mai uşor de savurat, ar fi ieşit o capodoperă! A list of films and television series, both directly and indirectly inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe.Desigur, povestea este prin excelenţă neverosimilă (căci distanţa dintre Pământ şi lună este totuşi considerabilă şi nu poate fi parcursă cu un balon), dar textul trebuie cântărit literar, nu ştiinţific (cu toate că Poe dovedeşte o excelentă erudiţie). The Fall of the House of Usher is a story I don't remember a lot of, so I'll definitely re-read it soon. His only finished novel, which I enjoyed until the last third or so—the beginning was just okay, I really liked the section aboard the Grampus, but it went downhill—mostly due to the blatant racism—once they voyage further south after being rescued by the crew of the Jane Guy. It read like two separate narratives, and it would've been vastly improved by scrapping the latter.