Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror... the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics New introductions commissioned from…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 976) Аннотация: «With this marvelously illustrated and popularly priced volume, readers can appreciate the full range of Poe's genius. Images reproduced from a variety of sources (including Aubrey Beardsley, Édouard Manet, and Arthur Rackham) enhance the mood of such favorites as «The Fall of the House of Usher,» «The Cask of Amontillado,» «The Tell-Tale Heart,» «The Purloined Letter,» and «The Masque of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.' Including Poe's most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Stories to send shivers down the spine from the master of horror.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym» is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But it also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative dilemmas, at last leaving the reader with a broken-off ending that defies solution. Apart from its violence…
Скачать книгу (размер 284 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 57) Аннотация: The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night... is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror... is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round? These famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, that master of horror,…
Скачать книгу (размер 213 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 43) Аннотация: The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked — with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened — on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Except Auguste Dupin, who…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Are you brave enough to read four of Poe’s famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don’t read this book late at night!
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: There are five stories in this book. The Fall of the House of Usher' and The Barrel of Amontillado' are stories of madness; The Maelstrom' describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in The Murders of the Rue Morgue' and The Stolen Letter' meet C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's famous Parisian detective.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around you, waiting... In these stories by Edgar Allan…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Seven intriguing stories by one of the most famous and gifted writers of nineteenth century American literature.
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Edgar Allan Poe, the father of the detective story' and a master of horror, is one of the greatest American short story writers. In these stories we meet people struggling with fear, revenge, mental illness and death. Which of them will win and which will lose their battles?
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: This collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people to whom something unexpected happens. Others are about unusual characters or events. Some of the stories are funny and others are more serious. All of them are highly enjoyable.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: There are five stories in this book. The Fall of the House of Usher' and The Barrel of Amontillado' are stories of madness; The Maelstrom' describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in The Murders of the Rue Morgue' and The Stolen Letter' meet C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's famous Parisian detective.
Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: From the exquisite lyric “To Helen”, to the immortal masterpieces “Annabel Lee”, “The Bells”, and “The Raven”, The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates the author’s gift for the form.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «This book features an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as «The Pit and the Pendulum», «The Fall of the House of Usher», «The Premature Burial» and «The Tell-Tale Heart», all of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories are…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind.