Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems (Amazing Values)

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Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. Desigur, povestea este prin excelenţă neverosimilă (căci distanţa dintre Pământ şi lună este totuşi considerabilă şi nu poate fi parcursă cu un balon), dar textul trebuie cântărit literar, nu ştiinţific (cu toate că Poe dovedeşte o excelentă erudiţie). Somehow, I find myself being glad that Edgar Allan Poe also came up with terribly-written stories like this one, so that I can still find reasons to criticize him. The narrator arouses suspicion by behaving oddly, by running around and ultimately by confessing to the murder in a clear and "distinct enunciation.

This is not always the case: his Ligeia retains his poetic narrowness, but his detective stories have a gentleness and wit found nowhere else in his oeuvre. While he doesn’t say as much, it can be inferred that, if you can convince a reader that something is the truth, you are equally capable of perpetrating a hoax.

It highlights the working of the mind in a state of sheer depravity; it is disturbing and brilliant. Un fel de proză precursoare pentru "Portretul lui Dorian Gray", numai că de dimensiuni mult mai mici. Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous.

Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size. As an adult, I have come to realize that my love of Poe's horror comes from the fact that he focuses not on the gore on modern horror, but rather on the shocking indelicacy of human potential.

He is (ostensibly) awoken and summoned to an unwrapping of a mummy at his friend Dr Ponnonner's house, along with a group of other learned men.