The Complete Stories
(Jacket Status: Jacketed)Edgar Allan Poe’s gift for the macabre–his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things–was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood...
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(Jacket Status: Jacketed)Edgar Allan Poe’s gift for the macabre–his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things–was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful represent–in contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitman–the other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679417408 (0679417400)
ASIN: 679417400
Publish date: January 11th 1993
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Pages no: 955
Edition language: English
Reseña de Fantasía MágicaLos cuentos de Poe son tantos y tan diversos que creo que no les voy a poder a hacer justicia en una simple opinión. Estoy alucinada con la cantidad de historias que ha escrito, pero lo que más me sorprendió es la variedad de argumentos y la cantidad de géneros en los que se...
Title: The Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan PoeAuthor: Edgar Allan Poe ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ I’ve read “ The Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan” for the 1st time 5 years ago ! and somehow it’s still great to re-read over and over again ! Poe’s imagination to go where most other writers refused to g...
Finally! I'm finally done with this book! Mr. Poe, you really can be quite insufferable at times. Way too descriptive writing to the point it felt he was just throwing filler fodder at us to increase the page numbers. Abrupt endings all around, tiring soliloquies... I was reading the Spanish version...
I am afraid that Edgar Allan Poe will never be my favourite cup of tea.There is a genius behind some of these tales and a forerunner of many literary genres, but I just find his prose too outworn and verbal.It's just like with Britons pouring milk in their tea. I can see how this milky addition has ...