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Das Stelldichein

Nella valle dell'Erba dai Mille Colori, il narratore vive con la zia materna e la cugina Eleonora. Li circonda un paesaggio paradisiaco, pieno di fiori profumati e alberi fantastici, dove scorre il Fiume del Silenzio: un luogo incontaminato, in cui i tre personaggi trascorrono la loro esistenza isolati ma felici. Ancora giovanissimi, il narratore ed Eleonora s'innamorano. Ma la fanciulla è ammalata e fa promettere al cugino che, dopo la sua morte, non sposerà mai nessun'altra e il giovane invoca su se stesso una pena orribile se mai dovesse violare il giuramento... Racconto breve, caratterizzato da una prosa straordinariamente ricca e poetica, Eleonora fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1842 a Filadelfia, nell' annuale letterario The Gift. È spesso considerato in qualche modo autobiografico e ha un finale insolito per uno scrittore come Poe. Insieme a Ligeia, Morella e Berenice, Poe ci lascia in eredità con Eleonora, un altro dei suoi splendidi ritratti di donne, ossessionanti, uniche, sovrannaturali, il cui eccezionale potere è in grado di oltrepassare persino i confini della morte. La presente edizione bilingue contiene la traduzione in italiano di Carmen Margherita Di Giglio e quella in francese di Charles Baudelaire.

Eleonora - Edizione bilingue italiano-francese

Mystification et Autres Contes

À Rouen un soir d'hiver, le philosophe Pierre Bon-Bon est penché sur un gros manuscrit, seul dans sa petite maison. Dehors la neige tombe furieusement, et des rafales de vent s'engouffrent dans la cheminée. Le métaphysicien est absorbé par son travail depuis quelques minutes. Soudain une voix s'élève du fond de la chambre et le fait sursauter.
Le diable déguisé en clerc se dresse devant lui. Pierre l'examine, se détend et lui serre la main. Bientôt, tous deux entament une conversation autour d'un bon vin sur les philosophes grecs, l'immortalité de l'âme, et leur plat préféré...

Ce conte empli de grotesque ne manque en rien d'être fantastique. Edgar Allan Poe imagine un récit où se mêlent philosophie, humour, et une morale aussi surprenante qu'inattendue.



Né aux États-Unis, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) perd ses parents très jeune. Il poursuit des études brillantes, mais est forcé de les stopper à cause de soucis financiers. Il s'engage alors dans l'armée et se fait volontairement renvoyer pour se lancer dans une carrière d'écrivain. Ses poèmes ne rencontrant pas un fort succès, il travaille pour un journal. Peu à peu, il acquiert une notoriété, gagne un concours de nouvelles, et publie en 1845 « Le Corbeau ». Grâce à sa nouvelle renommée, il parvient à monter sa propre revue. Mais sa joie est bouleversée par la mort de sa compagne Virginia. Poe sombre dans l'alcoolisme. Il laissera derrière lui une série d'oeuvres traduites par Baudelaire, et qui feront de lui le précurseur de tout un mouvement ainsi que du genre policier et fantastique.

Le Philosophe Bon-Bon

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Le cœur révélateur

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, the com­pan­ion vol­ume to Poe’s better-​known Tales of Mys­tery and Imag­i­na­tion, con­tains a selec­tion of his very best sto­ries, many of which first appeared in book form in the orig­i­nal Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. Many of the sto­ries deal with the famil­iar Poe themes of mur­der, obses­sion and pas­sion, but this vol­ume also con­tains many often-​overlooked tales of the fan­tas­tic and comic, par­o­dies and hoaxes, includ­ing ‘The Unpar­al­leled Adven­ture of Hans Pfaall’, ‘Mes­meric Rev­e­la­tion’, ‘Hop-​Frog’, and & ‘The Imp of the Perverse’.The book includes a sec­tion in colour, and con­tains use­ful essays from notable schol­ars: an intro­duc­tion by Kevin J. Hayes and Ben­jamin F. Fisher on Poe and the gothic.engag­ing biog­ra­phy of Edgar Allen Poethe com­plete text in a mod­ern, read­able typefacean illus­trated pub­lish­ing his­tory of the talestime­line in colour of Poe’s worldcolour map of Poe’s America

Les Meilleures Histoires Extraordinaires, Grotesques Et Sérieuses

This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Best of Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart,   The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the   Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat,   The Murders in the Rue Morgue" contains the Best Tales of Edgar Allan Poe in   one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed   table of contents.
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Is a short story told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the   reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. The murder is   carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by dismembering it and   hiding it under the floorboards. 
Fall of the House of Usher (1839) 
As in all of Poe's short stories, "The Fall of the House of Usher"   concentrates on a "single effect", in this case, the degeneration and decay   of the Usher house and family.
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
The story is set in a nameless Italian city in an unspecified year and is   about the narrator's deadly revenge on a friend who, he believes, has   insulted him. The narrative revolves around a person being buried alive-in   this case, by immurement.
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
The short story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish   Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story   describes his experience of being tortured. The story is especially effective   at inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on the senses,   such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many of Poe's stories which   are aided by the supernatural. 
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) 
It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of   his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. The murder is carefully   calculated, and the murderer hides the body by dismembering it and hiding it   under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in   the form of the sound - possibly hallucinatory - of the old man's heart still   beating under the floorboards.
The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague   known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other   wealthy nobles, has a masquerade ball within seven rooms of his abbey, each   decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious   figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each   of the rooms.
The Black Cat (1843)
It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with   Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". In both, a murderer carefully conceals   his crime and believes himself unassailable, but eventually breaks down and   reveals himself, impelled by a nagging reminder of his guilt.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
It has been recognized as the first detective story. C. Auguste Dupin is a   man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.   Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was   spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human.
American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) defined the genre of macabre   story-telling in the first half of the 19th century. Poe, known for   psychologically thrilling tales with morbid undertones, is generally   considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further   credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.

The Best of Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires

Edgar Poe s'attaque ici à un célèbre canular : l'automate joueur d'échecs, construit en 1770 et exposé dans le monde entier durant près d'un siècle. Plus que tout autre automate, il a emporté l'admiration du public car il était capable de jouer - et de gagner - contre un adversaire humain. L'auteur s'attache à en disséquer la mécanique mystérieuse, et à en révéler la supercherie. Annonçant les réflexions sur l'intelligence artificielle, il nous invite à une passionnante enquête au cour de la machine.

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