Le avventure di Arthur Gordon Pym (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Romanzo horror che narra come il giovane Arthur Gordon Pym in cerca di avventura, si imbarca di nascosto con la complicità dell'amico Augustus Barnard su una baleniera. Tutto sembra filare liscio quando un giorno la nave cade preda di un ammutinamento che segnerà l'inizio di una serie di avventure dalle atmosfere inquietanti e dai risvolti macabri. Libro in lingua originale inglese con traduzione in italiano.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788867441440
Publisher:	Kitabu
Publication date:	01/21/2013
Series:	Radici
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	809 KB

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.