Histoires extraordinaires, avec des scènes érotiques

by Edgar Allan Poe, Auguste Dupin, Charles Baudelaire (Translator)

Overview

Annonçant le roman policier, chefs-d'oeuvre de la littérature fantastique, les Histoires extraordinaires d'Edgar Allan Poe ont depuis longtemps consacré leur auteur comme une figure tutélaire du romantisme américain. Pourtant, considérées par certains comme les élucubrations d'un instable porté sur la bouteille, ces nouvelles, qui transpirent la mélancolie, l'angoisse, et les fantasmes d'une époque, ont toujours autant senti le souffre qu'irradié de beautés inhabituelles l'imaginaire des lecteurs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782364904255
Publisher:	Groupe CB
Publication date:	02/20/2014
Sold by:	EDITIS - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	118
File size:	714 KB
Language:	French

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.