Edgar Allan Poe, the Wizard of Terror: Biographical Narrative

Who reads tales as The Tell Tale Heart or The Black Cat can be taken by the feeling that there isn't, in the story itself, fixed points. In fact, few people indicate that the main character, who tells us (his) story, or is presented in a delusion that mistook a supernatural experience, or have an experience so amazing, so terrifying, that upset his judgment.

This uncertainty is pure magic , literary magic; wizard thing indeed. And it is also the purest Edgar Allan Poe.

Innovator of horror stories, master and main source of romantic gothic american — and one of the main authors of the genre in world literature — he left us powerful stories and influenced many contemporary writers, as indeed is mentioned in this book.

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Edgar Allan Poe, the Wizard of Terror: Biographical Narrative

Who reads tales as The Tell Tale Heart or The Black Cat can be taken by the feeling that there isn't, in the story itself, fixed points. In fact, few people indicate that the main character, who tells us (his) story, or is presented in a delusion that mistook a supernatural experience, or have an experience so amazing, so terrifying, that upset his judgment.

This uncertainty is pure magic , literary magic; wizard thing indeed. And it is also the purest Edgar Allan Poe.

Innovator of horror stories, master and main source of romantic gothic american — and one of the main authors of the genre in world literature — he left us powerful stories and influenced many contemporary writers, as indeed is mentioned in this book.

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Edgar Allan Poe, the Wizard of Terror: Biographical Narrative

Edgar Allan Poe, the Wizard of Terror: Biographical Narrative

Edgar Allan Poe, the Wizard of Terror: Biographical Narrative

Edgar Allan Poe, the Wizard of Terror: Biographical Narrative

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Overview

Who reads tales as The Tell Tale Heart or The Black Cat can be taken by the feeling that there isn't, in the story itself, fixed points. In fact, few people indicate that the main character, who tells us (his) story, or is presented in a delusion that mistook a supernatural experience, or have an experience so amazing, so terrifying, that upset his judgment.

This uncertainty is pure magic , literary magic; wizard thing indeed. And it is also the purest Edgar Allan Poe.

Innovator of horror stories, master and main source of romantic gothic american — and one of the main authors of the genre in world literature — he left us powerful stories and influenced many contemporary writers, as indeed is mentioned in this book.


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ISBN-13: 9788506073704
Publisher: Editora Melhoramentos
Publication date: 10/09/2013
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 28 MB
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Age Range: 13 Years

About the Author

A storyteller and novelist from São Paulo, Jeanette Rozsas' works have been published in newspapers and literary magazines in Brazil and abroad. She published, among others, the romances As sete sombras do gato ("The Seven Shades of the Cat" - Idea Editora, 2006) and Morrer em Praga ("To die in Prague" - Editorial Geraçăo, 2007), whose film rights were already sold. Her biographical romance Kafka e a marca do corvo ("Kafka and the Mark of the Crow" - Editorial Geraçăo, 2009) received the prize for Better Informative Romance, granted by the National Foundation of Children's and Juvenile Book (Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil - FNLIJ/2010) and was selected by the National Program of the School Library (Programa Nacional Biblioteca da Escola - PNBE/2011).

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