Histoires Extraordinaire et Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaire

by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire

Overview

In French. Both collections of Poe short stories translated to French by the great poet Charles Baudelaire. Poe's reputation in France is far greater than in America, due in large part to the quality of this translation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455425570
Publisher:	B&R Samizdat Express
Publication date:	02/06/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.