Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction & Literature 1

Berenice, one of the most important works by Edgar Allan Poe now in an epub3 AudioeBook version based on LibriVox audio and Project Gutenberg texts. Proudly brought to you for free by ReadBeyond 続きを見る

The Black Cat, one of the most important works by Edgar Allan Poe now in an epub3 AudioeBook version based on LibriVox audio and Project Gutenberg texts. Proudly brought to you for free by ReadBeyond 続きを見る

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Margaret Naudi. The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. ……続きを見る

Imprisoned and condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, an unnamed man is cruelly tortured by his captors even as an enemy army encircles the city. A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s st……続きを見る

Revenge turns deadly when the narrator, Montressor, buries his friend, Fortunato, alive as the result of a perceived insult. Like “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado”……続きを見る

Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle (1820) Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug (1842) The Purloined Letter (1845) Nathaniel Hawthorne: Howe's Masquerade (1838) The Birthmark (1843) Francis Bret Harte: The O……続きを見る

Fantasy and reality collide when an unnamed narrator believes his beloved wife, Ligeia, has risen from the dead. “Ligeia” was one of Edgar Allan Poe’s first published short stories, and spurred much……続きを見る

En el año 1844 Edgar Allan Poe escribió este relato fantástico que trata el hipnotismo bajo las teorías de Mesmer, los efectos del consumo de drogas y la relación magnética entre paciente y médico. ……続きを見る

The story is set in a nameless Italien city in an unspecified year and is about the narrator's deadly revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in ke……続きを見る

The first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term "catalepsy", a condition where he randomly falls into a death-lik……続きを見る

William Legrand becomes obsessed with searching for treasure after being bitten by a scarab-like bug thought to be made of pure gold. He notifies his closest friend, the narrator, telling him to imm……続きを見る

The narrator explains at length his theory on which he believes causes people to commit acts against their self-interest. This essay-like discussion is presented objectively, though the narrator adm……続きを見る

The main plot begins when the man is wandering the streets of Venice and comes across a woman who screams because she sees her baby in the water. She is not actually trying to get the baby out of th……続きを見る

Edgar Allan Poe's "Landor's Cottage" is a quiet and meditative story, far from the dark tension that often defines his writing. It opens as a peaceful journey through the countryside, culminating in……続きを見る

The story takes place during the time of the plague and huge areas of the city are uninhabited as a result. Whenever the plague is discovered, the district in which it was found is put under ban and……続きを見る

The story takes place during the Spanish Inquisition. At the beginning of the story an unnamed narrator is brought to trial before various sinister judges. Poe provides no explanation of why he is t……続きを見る

The story follows a man named Pierre Bon-Bon, who believes himself a profound philosopher, and his encounter with the devil. The humour of the story is based on the verbal interchange between the tw……続きを見る

After an unnamed illness, the narrator sits in a coffee shop in London. Fascinated by the crowd outside the window, he considers how isolated people think they are, despite "the very denseness of th……続きを見る

The scenario of this work is atypical for Poe. The narrator begins his tale by commenting that "the higher order of music is the most thoroughly estimated when we are exclusively alone." Only then, ……続きを見る

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar is about a mesmerist, who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also, to a certain ……続きを見る

Der Ich-Erzäler Montrésor lockt den verhassten Fortunato in die Gewölbe unter seinem Palast und mauert ihn dort als Rache für erlittene "tausendfältige Unbill" lebend ein. Als Köder dient Montrésor ……続きを見る

Der junge Ellison ist ein Mann der vom Schicksal gesegnet zu sein scheint und das Glück für sich gepachtet zu haben. Eines Tages vergrößert sich sein Glück um eine unverhoffte Erbschaft von enormem ……続きを見る

Der Ich-Erzähler versucht zu beweisen, dass er nicht wahnsinnig sei. Offenbar steht er unter dem Verdacht eben dies zu sein; ob er bereits in einer Irrenanstalt verbracht worden ist, bleibt offen; v……続きを見る

Vor noch nicht all zu langer Zeit gehörte es zum guten Ton, den Glauben an die ›Liebe auf den ersten Blick‹ für eine Lächerlichkeit zu halten, doch alle Leute, die denken und tief empfinden können, ……続きを見る

Alexander Dumas beschreibt das Leben Napoleon Bonapartes mit zahlreichen Schilderungen von seinen berühmten Schlachten. Das Werk muss vor dem Hintergrund von Land, Entstehungszeit und Autor gelesen ……続きを見る

When the body of Marie Rogêt is found in the Seine River, detective C. Auguste Dupin uses his superior deductive skills to discover the identity of the murderer. “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” is base……続きを見る

Yearning for adventure, young Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket stows away on the whaler Grampus. Beset by troubles including mutiny, shipwreck, and cannibals, Pym is rescued by the crew of the Jane Gu……続きを見る

Hear the sledges with the bellsーSilver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the ……続きを見る

Edgar Allan Poe művészien fantaszta novellái a léleknek a halál és az őrület határán tátongó mélységeit, a tudomány és az iszonyat találkozását, a logikának kusza összevisszasága alatt lappangó nyil……続きを見る

Gesamtwerk I - Romane und Erzählungen, Novellen und Geschichten, Schriften. 続きを見る