Edgar Allan Poe

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...

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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The "e;Red Death"e; had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal- the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this...

W tym roku mija 200 lat od urodzin Edgara Allana Poe, a "Zagłada domu Usherów", "William Wilson" czy "Ligeja" nie przestają intrygować zdumiewającą fabułą, olśniewającą wyobraźnią i jedynym w swoim rodzaju, niesamowitym nastrojem. W niniejszym tomie znajdują się zarówno te najsłynniejsze, jak i mniej popularne opowiadania autora "Kruka" – wszystkie...

This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting tales ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious and the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius of the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. The stories are so alive with compelling mysteries, vibrant images and unforgettably tormented characters, that...